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pith:2018:5A7I65I7KMU46HDFTAEZM54BLR
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Simple random search provides a competitive approach to reinforcement learning

Aurelia Guy, Benjamin Recht, Horia Mania

arxiv:1803.07055 v1 · 2018-03-19 · cs.LG · cs.AI · math.OC · stat.ML

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:20:40.456065Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

e83e8f751f5329cf1c6598099677815c6491064be3f40cb871af59fa8a9811b9

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arxiv: 1803.07055 · arxiv_version: 1803.07055v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.07055 · pith_short_12: 5A7I65I7KMU4 · pith_short_16: 5A7I65I7KMU46HDF · pith_short_8: 5A7I65I7
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5A7I65I7KMU46HDFTAEZM54BLR \
  | 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: e83e8f751f5329cf1c6598099677815c6491064be3f40cb871af59fa8a9811b9
Canonical record JSON
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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-19T17:35:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02a3ea84709b16cb22fae6309ddfcaeb124d0208ec8c1461d1772ce84c7a5951"
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