Pith Number

pith:NFQ2W5JB

pith:2024:NFQ2W5JBPD2HPAY46BG3GKE4OC

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A hybrid learning agent for episodic learning tasks with unknown target distance

Oliver Sefrin, Sabine W\"olk

arxiv:2412.13686 v1 · 2024-12-18 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NFQ2W5JBPD2HPAY46BG3GKE4OC}

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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	2026-07-05T09:51:06.520412Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6961ab752178f477831cf04db3289c708cb03487689bae05262f5ef721207492

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.13686 · arxiv_version: 2412.13686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.13686 · pith_short_12: NFQ2W5JBPD2H · pith_short_16: NFQ2W5JBPD2HPAY4 · pith_short_8: NFQ2W5JB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NFQ2W5JBPD2HPAY46BG3GKE4OC \
  | 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: 6961ab752178f477831cf04db3289c708cb03487689bae05262f5ef721207492

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "99bd81f10233dc5f5223ea670c36a138e129fdf7d6f7d908051739747ab3383d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2024-12-18T10:23:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "691aa9453bb5f96cae631ac56aac098734d6e9469ffe8b186f6e543dbb229444"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.13686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}