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pith:6ZBM56AI

pith:2019:6ZBM56AIITSW3IJ2CMA5JJYWHR

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Variance Reduction in Actor Critic Methods (ACM)

Eric Benhamou

arxiv:1907.09765 v1 · 2019-07-23 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:39:50.100035Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f642cef80844e56da13a1301d4a7163c739d93c2eacdbe6686b20563e7f386d3

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.09765 · arxiv_version: 1907.09765v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.09765 · pith_short_12: 6ZBM56AIITSW · pith_short_16: 6ZBM56AIITSW3IJ2 · pith_short_8: 6ZBM56AI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6ZBM56AIITSW3IJ2CMA5JJYWHR \
  | 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: f642cef80844e56da13a1301d4a7163c739d93c2eacdbe6686b20563e7f386d3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67872d1293eaafe9b65e644790015d2bfdd964ddc7a4ef239acaf74195c529a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-23T08:56:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8d908ff9e2588f928479de5ad7b1985eb9030ea6f0e03cfc3f10804245aff2b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.09765",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}