Pith Number

pith:HW5DOX2A

pith:2020:HW5DOX2ANFONIFB76FWXICZI6J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lower Bounds for Policy Iteration on Multi-action MDPs

Bhishma Dedhia, Kumar Ashutosh, Parthasarathi Khirwadkar, Sahil Shah, Sarthak Consul, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan

arxiv:2009.07842 v1 · 2020-09-16 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{HW5DOX2ANFONIFB76FWXICZI6J}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:35:59.031488Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3dba375f40695cd4143ff16d740b28f25f9f8335d071bf84f28e50d782993754

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.07842 · arxiv_version: 2009.07842v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.07842 · pith_short_12: HW5DOX2ANFON · pith_short_16: HW5DOX2ANFONIFB7 · pith_short_8: HW5DOX2A

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HW5DOX2ANFONIFB76FWXICZI6J \
  | 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: 3dba375f40695cd4143ff16d740b28f25f9f8335d071bf84f28e50d782993754

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cee4ddc56517efcb42fc5db61802624f40ef9587d19137d909713022a761f24b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-16T17:59:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "629819525ac72e33d3c626860fa50b5316f78530ee31a084f0c9290f8cc0eb54"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.07842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}