Pith Number

pith:NSNS7X4G

pith:2021:NSNS7X4GADCQFU3MXLFLAUNE7D

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Understanding the Origin of Information-Seeking Exploration in Probabilistic Objectives for Control

Anil Seth, Beren Millidge, Christopher Buckley

arxiv:2103.06859 v7 · 2021-03-11 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{NSNS7X4GADCQFU3MXLFLAUNE7D}

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:34:56.375771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c9b2fdf8600c502d36cbacab051a4f8ff0f41285b444573998bf48a35c43970

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.06859 · arxiv_version: 2103.06859v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.06859 · pith_short_12: NSNS7X4GADCQ · pith_short_16: NSNS7X4GADCQFU3M · pith_short_8: NSNS7X4G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NSNS7X4GADCQFU3MXLFLAUNE7D \
  | 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: 6c9b2fdf8600c502d36cbacab051a4f8ff0f41285b444573998bf48a35c43970

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7ba52d2594621c996f3058ccf108e931b195161088ed1842a1777ba9690a49e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-03-11T18:42:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0066e34d3842ced18f56476279a0787a92e5375fdb9c01d46978d0b1bfb08293"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.06859",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 7
  }
}