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pith:INKTMVWY

pith:2017:INKTMVWYD5CFHEGDGKCMYQYPKZ

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Stochastic Variance Reduction for Policy Gradient Estimation

Jian Peng, Qiang Liu, Tianbing Xu

arxiv:1710.06034 v4 · 2017-10-17 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Input-Side Variance Suppression under Non-Normal Transient Amplification in Continuous-Control Reinforcement Learning

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:19:49.091855Z
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Canonical hash

43553656d81f445390c33284cc430f566c2198106142a23702ceaea4384e44d7

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arxiv: 1710.06034 · arxiv_version: 1710.06034v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06034 · pith_short_12: INKTMVWYD5CF · pith_short_16: INKTMVWYD5CFHEGD · pith_short_8: INKTMVWY

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/INKTMVWYD5CFHEGDGKCMYQYPKZ \
  | 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: 43553656d81f445390c33284cc430f566c2198106142a23702ceaea4384e44d7

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-17T00:05:06Z",
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