Pith Number

pith:7DJ2F2SE

pith:2018:7DJ2F2SE3TW2QIZXKOTNDBPPPP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Per-decision Multi-step Temporal Difference Learning with Control Variates

Kristopher De Asis, Richard S. Sutton

arxiv:1807.01830 v1 · 2018-07-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7DJ2F2SE3TW2QIZXKOTNDBPPPP}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:20.067108Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8d3a2ea44dceda8233753a6d185ef7bc9c6a9b22daa5c5772da7e15fe69971d

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.01830 · arxiv_version: 1807.01830v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.01830 · pith_short_12: 7DJ2F2SE3TW2 · pith_short_16: 7DJ2F2SE3TW2QIZX · pith_short_8: 7DJ2F2SE

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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/7DJ2F2SE3TW2QIZXKOTNDBPPPP \
  | 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: f8d3a2ea44dceda8233753a6d185ef7bc9c6a9b22daa5c5772da7e15fe69971d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3a1b0a891cd2aed5109a4c61cb9d0d771fc3d5b3c9e56460254e6f2ddedf48e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-05T02:34:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c21d3429b15320ae0117abfa2a53bc225a56eb6002506f12016cf7dc8b78b2ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.01830",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}