Pith Number

pith:57UUB2PO

pith:2017:57UUB2POETLRMCRLSSNPY7UXL4

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Improving Exploration in Evolution Strategies for Deep Reinforcement Learning via a Population of Novelty-Seeking Agents

Edoardo Conti, Felipe Petroski Such, Jeff Clune, Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley, Vashisht Madhavan

arxiv:1712.06560 v3 · 2017-12-18 · cs.AI

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:03.272386Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efe940e9ee24d7160a2b949afc7e975f1f15ca27578815d1fc02d1470d87ad8b

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06560 · arxiv_version: 1712.06560v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06560 · pith_short_12: 57UUB2POETLR · pith_short_16: 57UUB2POETLRMCRL · pith_short_8: 57UUB2PO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/57UUB2POETLRMCRLSSNPY7UXL4 \
  | 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: efe940e9ee24d7160a2b949afc7e975f1f15ca27578815d1fc02d1470d87ad8b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "206d6f85bdf87eee6f44cc2a17451f44a473eb3f9913df6cc79e58ee1417b7af",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T18:10:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84b7949d0bf1723731302974fdabf1a218d113f0d1c44d1c4b57e21eb48ac7a9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06560",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}