Pith Number

pith:FN7OYUHM

pith:2026:FN7OYUHMPSXHVKLXOVY5BKYJ56

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Finite-Time Analysis of the Natural Policy Gradient in Finite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes

Asha Barua, Sajad Khodadadian

arxiv:2607.22982 v1 · 2026-07-25 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FN7OYUHMPSXHVKLXOVY5BKYJ56}

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First computed	2026-07-28T00:22:05.642879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b7eec50ec7cae7aa9777571d0ab09efa8af9585ba6ee95019fe0826fdc84eb3

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.22982 · arxiv_version: 2607.22982v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.22982 · pith_short_12: FN7OYUHMPSXH · pith_short_16: FN7OYUHMPSXHVKLX · pith_short_8: FN7OYUHM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FN7OYUHMPSXHVKLXOVY5BKYJ56 \
  | 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: 2b7eec50ec7cae7aa9777571d0ab09efa8af9585ba6ee95019fe0826fdc84eb3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7811bcdb4886f559a7c6e62a613de4a52c11fbd98730f4309ecdb73c1af8f01c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-25T01:37:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4cea04f97a688bafca5909d10cb1ae95f88300ced6ff35081c9703299f50a8f8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.22982",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}