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pith:OYNTO4RR

pith:2019:OYNTO4RR5MBGGJPSZJADEBMR4Q

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Discounted Reinforcement Learning Is Not an Optimization Problem

Abhishek Naik, Hengshuai Yao, Niko Yasui, Richard S. Sutton, Roshan Shariff

arxiv:1910.02140 v3 · 2019-10-04 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:22:25.886945Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

761b377231eb026325f2ca40320591e40e400160ebd88972fea47d62cac76f64

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arxiv: 1910.02140 · arxiv_version: 1910.02140v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.02140 · pith_short_12: OYNTO4RR5MBG · pith_short_16: OYNTO4RR5MBGGJPS · pith_short_8: OYNTO4RR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OYNTO4RR5MBGGJPSZJADEBMR4Q \
  | 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: 761b377231eb026325f2ca40320591e40e400160ebd88972fea47d62cac76f64

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-10-04T20:52:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90f291d7b07239c4c8a403a3550e21a2583a6d3fc4353a8d99369b7fbc338239"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1910.02140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}