Pith Number

pith:MEFYDUGR

pith:2017:MEFYDUGR2L6ZEHUVJCZ6O63CHE

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Cold-Start Reinforcement Learning with Softmax Policy Gradient

Nan Ding, Radu Soricut

arxiv:1709.09346 v2 · 2017-09-27 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MEFYDUGR2L6ZEHUVJCZ6O63CHE}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:54.759928Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

610b81d0d1d2fd921e9548b3e77b62390718091946bca5cfec4a1237943ec293

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09346 · arxiv_version: 1709.09346v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09346 · pith_short_12: MEFYDUGR2L6Z · pith_short_16: MEFYDUGR2L6ZEHUV · pith_short_8: MEFYDUGR

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MEFYDUGR2L6ZEHUVJCZ6O63CHE \
  | 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: 610b81d0d1d2fd921e9548b3e77b62390718091946bca5cfec4a1237943ec293

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64f16bd801fa75da84b2a8469cf020371ca21730d6a2da4aca40ebb826c31f0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-27T06:04:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68a7063ae097841732924d19cc12f11bd7d80b1650ad192ce9dd72a37b6f070a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}