Pith Number

pith:LINTXB6B

pith:2020:LINTXB6B7KVNFJ6C4XFUBSJNLT

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Understanding the Pathologies of Approximate Policy Evaluation when Combined with Greedification in Reinforcement Learning

Kenny Young, Richard S. Sutton

arxiv:2010.15268 v1 · 2020-10-28 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{LINTXB6B7KVNFJ6C4XFUBSJNLT}

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:47:35.304067Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5a1b3b87c1faaad2a7c2e5cb40c92d5cd3966f1f92db4e29253e52b2f0ddd0c9

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.15268 · arxiv_version: 2010.15268v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.15268 · pith_short_12: LINTXB6B7KVN · pith_short_16: LINTXB6B7KVNFJ6C · pith_short_8: LINTXB6B

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LINTXB6B7KVNFJ6C4XFUBSJNLT \
  | 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: 5a1b3b87c1faaad2a7c2e5cb40c92d5cd3966f1f92db4e29253e52b2f0ddd0c9

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e369469ec0749abb7ada647d3d0e27111f7319a94c3d0419503718be26a5ae9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-28T22:57:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8a8d420b77b37a39dfabc648958d7fe90f37f75e02bacbfabd88a628c60ed3b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.15268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}