Pith Number

pith:4A4TXNZH

pith:2017:4A4TXNZHWAAOEBFJYPOTOQ4ELE

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A Linearly Relaxed Approximate Linear Program for Markov Decision Processes

Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan, Csaba Szepesvari, Shalabh Bhatnagar

arxiv:1704.02544 v1 · 2017-04-09 · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4A4TXNZHWAAOEBFJYPOTOQ4ELE}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:45.167465Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0393bb727b000e204a9c3dd3743845916f77a6cfa26903275b8332b83acf830

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.02544 · arxiv_version: 1704.02544v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.02544 · pith_short_12: 4A4TXNZHWAAO · pith_short_16: 4A4TXNZHWAAOEBFJ · pith_short_8: 4A4TXNZH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4A4TXNZHWAAOEBFJYPOTOQ4ELE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e0393bb727b000e204a9c3dd3743845916f77a6cfa26903275b8332b83acf830

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "778aef7e6f58a6887d39de0ff3ce704e298c5933cc447f598d8e202ba6657a19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-09T00:33:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47d0f8ece683ffb37d54f3501f1acf004e0a58e1d14fd54e9e10007784f1a9f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.02544",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}