Pith Number

pith:A2MVSSGC

pith:2017:A2MVSSGCAULORNP4TNANQPRKMZ

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A First Empirical Study of Emphatic Temporal Difference Learning

Banafsheh Rafiee, Richard S. Sutton, Sina Ghiassian

arxiv:1705.04185 v2 · 2017-05-11 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A2MVSSGCAULORNP4TNANQPRKMZ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:44:38.385939Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06995948c20516e8b5fc9b40d83e2a66448f65ab28f53765c25d5ff50218499b

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.04185 · arxiv_version: 1705.04185v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.04185 · pith_short_12: A2MVSSGCAULO · pith_short_16: A2MVSSGCAULORNP4 · pith_short_8: A2MVSSGC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A2MVSSGCAULORNP4TNANQPRKMZ \
  | 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: 06995948c20516e8b5fc9b40d83e2a66448f65ab28f53765c25d5ff50218499b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3f011118fc65af83f16736b50478fb602c6d82ab7753933c5fcfa1a7a8fc1285",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-11T13:52:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e0b42a6e06ce88f3f1ed8077f32250f86113a822cd3de2712b7c838771e11fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.04185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}