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pith:IQEBSB5W

pith:2016:IQEBSB5WQR6SYMF5MRVG2Q65GA

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Unifying task specification in reinforcement learning

Martha White

arxiv:1609.01995 v4 · 2016-09-07 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{IQEBSB5WQR6SYMF5MRVG2Q65GA}

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:15:24.743734Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44081907b6847d2c30bd646a6d43dd303ff168abff5bf05b2ecf4cafd4af8138

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.01995 · arxiv_version: 1609.01995v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.01995 · pith_short_12: IQEBSB5WQR6S · pith_short_16: IQEBSB5WQR6SYMF5 · pith_short_8: IQEBSB5W

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IQEBSB5WQR6SYMF5MRVG2Q65GA \
  | 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: 44081907b6847d2c30bd646a6d43dd303ff168abff5bf05b2ecf4cafd4af8138

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53c4db219ee8865bba32256cd809588d5c933ffd634ed2f50f6e28f616db65be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-07T14:27:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "842f10194d76b1372e69a94970772c78937a4626f60c6d5ea6720ded98559ff3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.01995",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}