Pith Number

pith:A6EQL2V3

pith:2025:A6EQL2V3MGWB3KWMKVZA4NXQMN

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Efficient Computation of Blackwell Optimal Policies using Rational Functions

Dibyangshu Mukherjee, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan

arxiv:2508.18252 v1 · 2025-08-25 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{A6EQL2V3MGWB3KWMKVZA4NXQMN}

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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	2026-07-05T11:58:56.323876Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

078905eabb61ac1daacc55720e36f0634352d1dee5023f164e4afd3f45a04f54

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.18252 · arxiv_version: 2508.18252v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.18252 · pith_short_12: A6EQL2V3MGWB · pith_short_16: A6EQL2V3MGWB3KWM · pith_short_8: A6EQL2V3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A6EQL2V3MGWB3KWMKVZA4NXQMN \
  | 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: 078905eabb61ac1daacc55720e36f0634352d1dee5023f164e4afd3f45a04f54

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49e34e83c0f6c0559a10ba58e7acb0cca42ab999a3139853822c794f0726f9ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-25T17:41:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a8305df022b051d0259c4e22ae795272d4a08e052f8e050a6fd86be01bdcef7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.18252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}