Pith Number

pith:5XH237CQ

pith:2021:5XH237CQ6G7I7KSREXBT64JCLM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Policy Gradients Incorporating the Future

David Venuto, Doina Precup, Elaine Lau, Ofir Nachum

arxiv:2108.02096 v2 · 2021-08-04 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5XH237CQ6G7I7KSREXBT64JCLM}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T03:05:13.605108Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

edcfadfc50f1be8faa5125c33f71225b2419ce7595dcef8d2b4fc2cbba128d75

Aliases

arxiv: 2108.02096 · arxiv_version: 2108.02096v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.02096 · pith_short_12: 5XH237CQ6G7I · pith_short_16: 5XH237CQ6G7I7KSR · pith_short_8: 5XH237CQ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5XH237CQ6G7I7KSREXBT64JCLM \
  | 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: edcfadfc50f1be8faa5125c33f71225b2419ce7595dcef8d2b4fc2cbba128d75

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e93c265d44c921c827f116ef1a1f9254dd47690f593d2ddacb4c95705d211b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-04T14:57:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "034aab1df672f3f89c3e81e25e5be1154b8caa2beb87511300826178aec14415"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2108.02096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}