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pith:BQTBLZU4

pith:2024:BQTBLZU4PHLDUZ2HEESTZ5HM34

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Elementary Analysis of Policy Gradient Methods

Jiacai Liu, Ke Wei, Wenye Li

arxiv:2404.03372 v2 · 2024-04-04 · math.OC · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:06:48.270904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c2615e69c79d63a674721253cf4ecdf2b263470f4b0c5eb70a3c689482b1928

Aliases

arxiv: 2404.03372 · arxiv_version: 2404.03372v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.03372 · pith_short_12: BQTBLZU4PHLD · pith_short_16: BQTBLZU4PHLDUZ2H · pith_short_8: BQTBLZU4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BQTBLZU4PHLDUZ2HEESTZ5HM34 \
  | 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: 0c2615e69c79d63a674721253cf4ecdf2b263470f4b0c5eb70a3c689482b1928

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2024-04-04T11:16:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "346e18a9279ca85bffe276daf2117706bdd0660303491c24ac3bdf0ed2992fd0"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}