Pith Number

pith:5QUCBLSY

pith:2025:5QUCBLSYR4GWEBBWQKH2EOFYNG

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Improving Value Estimation Critically Enhances Vanilla Policy Gradient

Ruipeng Zhang, Sicun Gao, Tao Wang

arxiv:2505.19247 v1 · 2025-05-25 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.RO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5QUCBLSYR4GWEBBWQKH2EOFYNG}

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4 Citations 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:09:27.042945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec2820ae588f0d620436828fa238b869ab1b5c19336024b8bf1a05c73f609228

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.19247 · arxiv_version: 2505.19247v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.19247 · pith_short_12: 5QUCBLSYR4GW · pith_short_16: 5QUCBLSYR4GWEBBW · pith_short_8: 5QUCBLSY

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5QUCBLSYR4GWEBBWQKH2EOFYNG \
  | 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: ec2820ae588f0d620436828fa238b869ab1b5c19336024b8bf1a05c73f609228

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b76a3a31a175323e3a58db9ce50fa6f66c19f0fe6ae32b0a8ccbb11d06eb2ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-25T17:54:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1775c24a12cdc5209b4b50ca356995a6cbf3d5ddce2a80e7d5d63e8cf515c03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.19247",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}