Pith Number

pith:EEQBEI3L

pith:2017:EEQBEI3LMT3V5RCIHLKQLC5KVX

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Multi-Timescale, Gradient Descent, Temporal Difference Learning with Linear Options

Doina Precup, Peeyush Kumar

arxiv:1703.06471 v1 · 2017-03-19 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EEQBEI3LMT3V5RCIHLKQLC5KVX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:48:22.751969Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

212012236b64f75ec4483ad5058baaadd65da277f3b645b934f16183e662ac7d

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.06471 · arxiv_version: 1703.06471v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.06471 · pith_short_12: EEQBEI3LMT3V · pith_short_16: EEQBEI3LMT3V5RCI · pith_short_8: EEQBEI3L

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EEQBEI3LMT3V5RCIHLKQLC5KVX \
  | 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: 212012236b64f75ec4483ad5058baaadd65da277f3b645b934f16183e662ac7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0a3a059dd8a22b79bfebc5f98097fb92d9d1723db652d281ccdba67ba05af0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-19T17:31:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb7ab7acff77419559b7b1daa9c0a391dd26eaf481dd525d629acb2ec446d8f0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.06471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}