Pith Number

pith:HFSIVXEI

pith:2017:HFSIVXEIGL6VEI2CDBBQRPAVFS

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Balanced Policy Evaluation and Learning

Nathan Kallus

arxiv:1705.07384 v2 · 2017-05-21 · stat.ML · cs.LG · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HFSIVXEIGL6VEI2CDBBQRPAVFS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:33.043212Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

39648adc8832fd522342184308bc152ca27459ac1f0cce378d38d2f088e7ce1e

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.07384 · arxiv_version: 1705.07384v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.07384 · pith_short_12: HFSIVXEIGL6V · pith_short_16: HFSIVXEIGL6VEI2C · pith_short_8: HFSIVXEI

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/HFSIVXEIGL6VEI2CDBBQRPAVFS \
  | 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: 39648adc8832fd522342184308bc152ca27459ac1f0cce378d38d2f088e7ce1e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa1c2e2026f3e3e7364463ab336698779440cd6b14a82c9932046957b0a6bf01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-21T03:03:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "879c704efe09515969728f99674096f72e84928cf987e6e868fedec48898ffdc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.07384",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}