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pith:KP43KVI6

pith:2018:KP43KVI64BE5FOUAGQHXGTK6XT

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KF-LAX: Kronecker-factored curvature estimation for control variate optimization in reinforcement learning

Mohammad Firouzi

arxiv:1812.04181 v1 · 2018-12-11 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{KP43KVI64BE5FOUAGQHXGTK6XT}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:58:35.311566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

53f9b5551ee049d2ba80340f734d5ebcdf015a10b48a50d1f5945a32f435cc6b

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.04181 · arxiv_version: 1812.04181v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.04181 · pith_short_12: KP43KVI64BE5 · pith_short_16: KP43KVI64BE5FOUA · pith_short_8: KP43KVI6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KP43KVI64BE5FOUAGQHXGTK6XT \
  | 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: 53f9b5551ee049d2ba80340f734d5ebcdf015a10b48a50d1f5945a32f435cc6b

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ff89826fc56df8e31210f4cb717fbb0a516c154f6866dbc618da0970b6570fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-11T01:56:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac2dcc0e5180a3e1f642fae0ce4944242af2bb61c84db133086a60ceced28118"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1812.04181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}