Pith Number

pith:4WDAUHA4

pith:2026:4WDAUHA457DUW2WTSYB5FNEHEG

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The Optimal Token Baseline: Variance Reduction for Long-Horizon LLM-RL

Baoxiang Wang, Ge Zhang, Jiacai Liu, Jiawei Xu, Longtao Zheng, Qian Liu, Tianle Cai, Wei Liu, Yaxiang Zhang, Yingru Li, Yuxuan Tong, Zhenghai Xue, Ziniu Li

arxiv:2602.07078 v2 · 2026-02-06 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{4WDAUHA457DUW2WTSYB5FNEHEG}

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Policy Improvement Reinforcement Learning

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First computed	2026-06-23T02:13:20.781679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5860a1c1cefc74b6ad39603d2b48721a989b33487196e8c602ffd747c0ba80b

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.07078 · arxiv_version: 2602.07078v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.07078 · pith_short_12: 4WDAUHA457DU · pith_short_16: 4WDAUHA457DUW2WT · pith_short_8: 4WDAUHA4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4WDAUHA457DUW2WTSYB5FNEHEG \
  | 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: e5860a1c1cefc74b6ad39603d2b48721a989b33487196e8c602ffd747c0ba80b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-06T03:16:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c554b01c096d1d3825197d7608432715ce7de78ed5eae3cdaa1cfa9a8615299a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.07078",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}