Pith Number

pith:4V3PHO7T

pith:2017:4V3PHO7TZJG23IS2RKSYMIRENH

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Variational Policy for Guiding Point Processes

Evangelos Theodorou, Grady Williams, Le Song, Yichen Wang

arxiv:1701.08585 v4 · 2017-01-30 · cs.LG · cs.SI · cs.SY · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4V3PHO7TZJG23IS2RKSYMIRENH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:55.265486Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e576f3bbf3ca4dada25a8aa586222469e96982f9555018874d95fd3d450c7b2d

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.08585 · arxiv_version: 1701.08585v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.08585 · pith_short_12: 4V3PHO7TZJG2 · pith_short_16: 4V3PHO7TZJG23IS2 · pith_short_8: 4V3PHO7T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4V3PHO7TZJG23IS2RKSYMIRENH \
  | 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: e576f3bbf3ca4dada25a8aa586222469e96982f9555018874d95fd3d450c7b2d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a4fbc811a5747445d03582b7874af6ddf629f70694eebd33a19dbf33a86c824b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "cs.SY",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-30T13:24:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ea750d513f69bb497f0f0f7dc478f0a050095666a1b9ff430f94b464dab5ca98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.08585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}