Pith Number

pith:LRZ6OMGI

pith:2018:LRZ6OMGIVSXKZVAJZJRP3TYBH3

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Directly Estimating the Variance of the {\lambda}-Return Using Temporal-Difference Methods

Adam White, Brendan Bennett, Craig Sherstan, Dylan R. Ashley, Kenny Young, Martha White, Richard S. Sutton

arxiv:1801.08287 v2 · 2018-01-25 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:20.787855Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c73e730c8acaeacd409ca62fdcf013ef31ae5e67502f1448eedaa3972917492

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.08287 · arxiv_version: 1801.08287v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.08287 · pith_short_12: LRZ6OMGIVSXK · pith_short_16: LRZ6OMGIVSXKZVAJ · pith_short_8: LRZ6OMGI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LRZ6OMGIVSXKZVAJZJRP3TYBH3 \
  | 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: 5c73e730c8acaeacd409ca62fdcf013ef31ae5e67502f1448eedaa3972917492

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9643d4124b4c3e4b020199b786ab720ceabc6f80c5f2e37c13151ab3d143a07",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-25T06:48:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f1e198c819ac397dbe81bd7fafc54b7d9b721cae6c32df2730d583ab8effa36a"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}