Pith Number

pith:HOMMGM5O

pith:2026:HOMMGM5OXUO7DZBQFCDJ72SMME

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Self-Normalized Inference for Constant-Stepsize Temporal-Difference Learning under Markovian Sampling

Min Zeng, Xiaofeng Shao, Yichen Zhang

arxiv:2608.10896 v1 · 2026-08-11 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HOMMGM5OXUO7DZBQFCDJ72SMME}

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First computed	2026-08-12T01:23:45.629852Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b98c333aebd1df1e43028869fea4c6116eb48f049433420cf76ea91aa5e3a49

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.10896 · arxiv_version: 2608.10896v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.10896 · pith_short_12: HOMMGM5OXUO7 · pith_short_16: HOMMGM5OXUO7DZBQ · pith_short_8: HOMMGM5O

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HOMMGM5OXUO7DZBQFCDJ72SMME \
  | 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: 3b98c333aebd1df1e43028869fea4c6116eb48f049433420cf76ea91aa5e3a49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "163c1e95fc8e9a6b6f9c9b995f8f21218736387e372e5aade3b9f0890692caaf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-11T13:19:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "539cd460a7579a405033ef3240e6c6f8248c134d884dc08bfff48ecf3451706b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.10896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}