Pith Number

pith:H3XON5JL

pith:2013:H3XON5JLNMX2FOSZK7ODY5DD2Q

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Convergence Analysis of the Approximate Newton Method for Markov Decision Processes

Guy Lever, Thomas Furmston

arxiv:1310.7906 v2 · 2013-10-29 · math.OC

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:35:57.481011Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3eeee6f52b6b2fa2ba5957dc3c7463d40f179c57bc1cc9eb0adc9a58811a0beb

Aliases

arxiv: 1310.7906 · arxiv_version: 1310.7906v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1310.7906 · pith_short_12: H3XON5JLNMX2 · pith_short_16: H3XON5JLNMX2FOSZ · pith_short_8: H3XON5JL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H3XON5JLNMX2FOSZK7ODY5DD2Q \
  | 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: 3eeee6f52b6b2fa2ba5957dc3c7463d40f179c57bc1cc9eb0adc9a58811a0beb

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49dbf6d6ff5c6fa4e2761ca7a255c10f0bf0b0eba45887cb864efc33751a1f1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2013-10-29T18:13:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c962b3990a76bdc4e34d5693c2603c8b51ec875f41f01d0c743248338255729e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1310.7906",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}