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pith:NHW6WUC6

pith:2025:NHW6WUC67VMTQ4AALUDVMDTRBJ

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When Maximum Entropy Misleads Policy Optimization

Ruipeng Zhang, Sicun Gao, Ya-Chien Chang

arxiv:2506.05615 v1 · 2025-06-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:20:13.202737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

69edeb505efd593870005d07560e710a4df7a2a2695d6c51652b04fc018a60b7

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.05615 · arxiv_version: 2506.05615v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.05615 · pith_short_12: NHW6WUC67VMT · pith_short_16: NHW6WUC67VMTQ4AA · pith_short_8: NHW6WUC6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NHW6WUC67VMTQ4AALUDVMDTRBJ \
  | 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: 69edeb505efd593870005d07560e710a4df7a2a2695d6c51652b04fc018a60b7

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-05T22:03:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4ade1576e8674c4579547e633d5bd3c0d418986b4cd487ca62c58dcaece502d5"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}