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pith:6RBFIKPY

pith:2025:6RBFIKPYUD3D7RZNN4ROZ2A7FL

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The Courage to Stop: Overcoming Sunk Cost Fallacy in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Aaron Courville, Jiashun Liu, Johan Obando-Ceron, Ling Pan, Pablo Samuel Castro

arxiv:2506.13672 v1 · 2025-06-16 · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{6RBFIKPYUD3D7RZNN4ROZ2A7FL}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:22:24.738195Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4425429f8a0f63fc72d6f22ece81f2acb11abd180e9e377cb15a03fcbabfc4f

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.13672 · arxiv_version: 2506.13672v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.13672 · pith_short_12: 6RBFIKPYUD3D · pith_short_16: 6RBFIKPYUD3D7RZN · pith_short_8: 6RBFIKPY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6RBFIKPYUD3D7RZNN4ROZ2A7FL \
  | 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: f4425429f8a0f63fc72d6f22ece81f2acb11abd180e9e377cb15a03fcbabfc4f

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8375f75560f6b177759a07cab813bbdc94104afe5ecb49c2aadee148286a368",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-16T16:30:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c87eb952fd5c316c81b5d527b3a99aff5311f9cae5622717e0dea8c9edd2ec04"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.13672",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}