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pith:BP2AHTRC

pith:2023:BP2AHTRCDHRU6J6APUCAXDS2C3

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The Role of Baselines in Policy Gradient Optimization

Bo Dai, Csaba Szepesvari, Dale Schuurmans, Jincheng Mei, Valentin Thomas, Wesley Chung

arxiv:2301.06276 v1 · 2023-01-16 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:33:29.887558Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0bf403ce2219e34f27c07d040b8e5a16e3c6a47d599e55221b34fbdeadd90b3f

Aliases

arxiv: 2301.06276 · arxiv_version: 2301.06276v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.06276 · pith_short_12: BP2AHTRCDHRU · pith_short_16: BP2AHTRCDHRU6J6A · pith_short_8: BP2AHTRC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BP2AHTRCDHRU6J6APUCAXDS2C3 \
  | 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: 0bf403ce2219e34f27c07d040b8e5a16e3c6a47d599e55221b34fbdeadd90b3f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba7ccee56f6525951b5e68dcd83b31f64fdd9a20e10bdce473907e97fad0cfc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2023-01-16T06:28:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae48f9e0f137b92136dd59bfb10e7cb188652d79e4892fa7c409557c24893b9f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2301.06276",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}