Pith Number

pith:LEYTE3NP

pith:2017:LEYTE3NPACE2RSY2RLYLVC7Q7R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Least-Squares Temporal Difference Learning for the Linear Quadratic Regulator

Benjamin Recht, Stephen Tu

arxiv:1712.08642 v1 · 2017-12-22 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LEYTE3NPACE2RSY2RLYLVC7Q7R}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:17.139672Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5931326daf0089a8cb1a8af0ba8bf0fc676fa1b52c906ec26661b333a61ab846

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08642 · arxiv_version: 1712.08642v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08642 · pith_short_12: LEYTE3NPACE2 · pith_short_16: LEYTE3NPACE2RSY2 · pith_short_8: LEYTE3NP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LEYTE3NPACE2RSY2RLYLVC7Q7R \
  | 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: 5931326daf0089a8cb1a8af0ba8bf0fc676fa1b52c906ec26661b333a61ab846

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52ebecafe6689058ec8d1b00621d2b78a17b0aa0bdd9ae6cb523c50f98a8df74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-22T20:12:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4610a200418183c7797823f92b17f7c88e77a27d54909efdc8a0b38bb1ae3a88"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}