Pith Number

pith:6BX7JZ5N

pith:2017:6BX7JZ5NTKCEUUTHULEAYYTYPJ

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An Information-Theoretic Optimality Principle for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Felix Leibfried, Haitham Bou-Ammar, Jordi Grau-Moya

arxiv:1708.01867 v5 · 2017-08-06 · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:22.527945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f06ff4e7ad9a844a5267a2c80c62787a52593cdf5312fb24a041780399180c2c

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01867 · arxiv_version: 1708.01867v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01867 · pith_short_12: 6BX7JZ5NTKCE · pith_short_16: 6BX7JZ5NTKCEUUTH · pith_short_8: 6BX7JZ5N

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6BX7JZ5NTKCEUUTHULEAYYTYPJ \
  | 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: f06ff4e7ad9a844a5267a2c80c62787a52593cdf5312fb24a041780399180c2c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ace951ff1cfd1697253dfc5c045196fde4751f5b5720cd4c2f6fd6d6efe250a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-06T09:23:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ca35bd1b6d2cd3fbe76cfd5aaffd022a3fc4b03a04aab81f3147aac9eea615f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01867",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}