Pith Number

pith:4VOOWRMY

pith:2019:4VOOWRMYXQ43XVGZPNPBDSSLLV

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Should All Temporal Difference Learning Use Emphasis?

Richard S. Sutton, Sina Ghiassian, Xiang Gu

arxiv:1903.00194 v1 · 2019-03-01 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4VOOWRMYXQ43XVGZPNPBDSSLLV}

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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	2026-05-17T23:52:20.585608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e55ceb4598bc39bbd4d97b5e11ca4b5d47c6f97f02aa1c8b4dae97fdfeda2466

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.00194 · arxiv_version: 1903.00194v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.00194 · pith_short_12: 4VOOWRMYXQ43 · pith_short_16: 4VOOWRMYXQ43XVGZ · pith_short_8: 4VOOWRMY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4VOOWRMYXQ43XVGZPNPBDSSLLV \
  | 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: e55ceb4598bc39bbd4d97b5e11ca4b5d47c6f97f02aa1c8b4dae97fdfeda2466

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5006a4a823f2313fad309de775d4e783ad0f13b9d8fb5823f5ae0b5ecd15dd1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-01T08:09:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ca037130f43243470e042944e536b229b7fadd5e6afe07eb2dce7a4743595ede"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "version": 1
  }
}