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pith:52BDZMNE

pith:2018:52BDZMNE737Z4ZZJTPD3QW25KV

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An Online Prediction Algorithm for Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation using Cross Entropy Method

Ajin George Joseph, Shalabh Bhatnagar

arxiv:1806.06720 v1 · 2018-06-15 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:59.350915Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee823cb1a4feff9e67299bc7b85b5d556a34907e6260416937d893eb6248a668

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.06720 · arxiv_version: 1806.06720v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.06720 · pith_short_12: 52BDZMNE737Z · pith_short_16: 52BDZMNE737Z4ZZJ · pith_short_8: 52BDZMNE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/52BDZMNE737Z4ZZJTPD3QW25KV \
  | 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: ee823cb1a4feff9e67299bc7b85b5d556a34907e6260416937d893eb6248a668

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-15T17:37:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b408ba92a4a02aa565546e8ab012b40c9811d0a8c6aa4cd13952cef79cd2471"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}