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pith:ARMB6D3H

pith:2018:ARMB6D3HFKFQTWNYOVHIFZEE26

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The Gap Between Model-Based and Model-Free Methods on the Linear Quadratic Regulator: An Asymptotic Viewpoint

Benjamin Recht, Stephen Tu

arxiv:1812.03565 v2 · 2018-12-09 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{ARMB6D3HFKFQTWNYOVHIFZEE26}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:53.299030Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04581f0f672a8b09d9b8754e82e484d79ef81fd517b2451f16ef5adc9945769e

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.03565 · arxiv_version: 1812.03565v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.03565 · pith_short_12: ARMB6D3HFKFQ · pith_short_16: ARMB6D3HFKFQTWNY · pith_short_8: ARMB6D3H

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ARMB6D3HFKFQTWNYOVHIFZEE26 \
  | 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: 04581f0f672a8b09d9b8754e82e484d79ef81fd517b2451f16ef5adc9945769e

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-09T22:24:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a70ddebb8694a1bd8c721519f6d30fcdf4c4f927ba33631f3de172301b0a60dd"
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  }
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