Pith Number

pith:AZKDA4ZE

pith:2025:AZKDA4ZEK5EQEYBLTDEDLFOOEP

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"What are my options?": Explaining RL Agents with Diverse Near-Optimal Alternatives (Extended)

Cedric Langbort, Noel Brindise, Riya Shah, Vijeth Hebbar

arxiv:2506.09901 v1 · 2025-06-11 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AZKDA4ZEK5EQEYBLTDEDLFOOEP}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:19:58.512746Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0654307324574902602b98c83595ce23e91f5c0a9627a08353cf4951c6062b71

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.09901 · arxiv_version: 2506.09901v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.09901 · pith_short_12: AZKDA4ZEK5EQ · pith_short_16: AZKDA4ZEK5EQEYBL · pith_short_8: AZKDA4ZE

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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/AZKDA4ZEK5EQEYBLTDEDLFOOEP \
  | 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: 0654307324574902602b98c83595ce23e91f5c0a9627a08353cf4951c6062b71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9b6126a0c49119573a232383a1c5495fc310f2743630139119f4a81a083df6ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-11T16:15:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3debd85b888b2c775d642e2e4320fea6971a2da4da652704b64c7c9c528cfca4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.09901",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}