Pith Number

pith:HL4W3IYH

pith:2021:HL4W3IYHESRPTRIF2YZF55N3GE

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From Convex Optimization to MDPs: A Review of First-Order, Second-Order and Quasi-Newton Methods for MDPs

Julien Grand-Cl\'ement

arxiv:2104.10677 v2 · 2021-04-19 · math.OC

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\pithnumber{HL4W3IYHESRPTRIF2YZF55N3GE}

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Mathematical methods of reinforcement learning

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:34:56.442795Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3af96da30724a2f9c505d6325ef5bb311fbc7fdb4c7f31c20a533a6766f3b3e1

Aliases

arxiv: 2104.10677 · arxiv_version: 2104.10677v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.10677 · pith_short_12: HL4W3IYHESRP · pith_short_16: HL4W3IYHESRPTRIF · pith_short_8: HL4W3IYH

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HL4W3IYHESRPTRIF2YZF55N3GE \
  | 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: 3af96da30724a2f9c505d6325ef5bb311fbc7fdb4c7f31c20a533a6766f3b3e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "248d06986a71b79bd9065dfb85825ecca7a9eb1328f46bd6870974e5225ee37e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-04-19T21:07:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c9b5daa6b4fdaf6ec602de106e720d7cb074a9490e9748d8ca342d4dea9c8af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2104.10677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}