Pith Number

pith:N3GPE2UY

pith:2017:N3GPE2UYH5PGVWZQLY2A4KF7OJ

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An Efficient, Expressive and Local Minima-free Method for Learning Controlled Dynamical Systems

Ahmed Hefny, Carlton Downey, Geoffrey J. Gordon

arxiv:1702.03537 v2 · 2017-02-12 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N3GPE2UYH5PGVWZQLY2A4KF7OJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:16.302581Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6eccf26a983f5e6adb305e340e28bf7250ddd14883fed5a8387037322cac7ee5

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03537 · arxiv_version: 1702.03537v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03537 · pith_short_12: N3GPE2UYH5PG · pith_short_16: N3GPE2UYH5PGVWZQ · pith_short_8: N3GPE2UY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N3GPE2UYH5PGVWZQLY2A4KF7OJ \
  | 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: 6eccf26a983f5e6adb305e340e28bf7250ddd14883fed5a8387037322cac7ee5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56acd578efe2822738b01395357ac63c30234cc00f5ba8c262f720f5fc66bf45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-12T16:13:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be9bd1068d834ef9e7d5a4f4d3fe379ddfaba324e232e7bf634c5c3d412e701d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03537",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}