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pith:7XONRNLC

pith:2017:7XONRNLCHUDPPEWD77FYVS2ZIF

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Randomized Linear Programming Solves the Discounted Markov Decision Problem In Nearly-Linear (Sometimes Sublinear) Running Time

Mengdi Wang

arxiv:1704.01869 v3 · 2017-04-06 · math.OC · cs.DS

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:44:33.075840Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

fddcd8b5623d06f792c3ffcb8acb59415164c42955212f8d50b1a38acb4afc59

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arxiv: 1704.01869 · arxiv_version: 1704.01869v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.01869 · pith_short_12: 7XONRNLCHUDP · pith_short_16: 7XONRNLCHUDPPEWD · pith_short_8: 7XONRNLC

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7XONRNLCHUDPPEWD77FYVS2ZIF \
  | 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: fddcd8b5623d06f792c3ffcb8acb59415164c42955212f8d50b1a38acb4afc59

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-06T14:45:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a91c3b99ef9c0436b8ab7a1e9a7e3f6030058ffaba5904559eec539338ab871"
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