Pith Number

pith:PMMHHTAI

pith:2020:PMMHHTAIRK3CP2KCEX3553J33E

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Beyond variance reduction: Understanding the true impact of baselines on policy optimization

Marlos C. Machado, Nicolas Le Roux, Valentin Thomas, Wesley Chung

arxiv:2008.13773 v3 · 2020-08-31 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PMMHHTAIRK3CP2KCEX3553J33E}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:16:37.628268Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b1873cc088ab627e94225f7deed3bd934e18051f456a6ae14e0f798456345e4

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.13773 · arxiv_version: 2008.13773v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.13773 · pith_short_12: PMMHHTAIRK3C · pith_short_16: PMMHHTAIRK3CP2KC · pith_short_8: PMMHHTAI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PMMHHTAIRK3CP2KCEX3553J33E \
  | 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: 7b1873cc088ab627e94225f7deed3bd934e18051f456a6ae14e0f798456345e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e79a4813106ba89f6aa26ca8bdef3b7bd47c6c463fdffd10d0f45debdf3cdeb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-31T17:52:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "245270a46087acd4c1d95704adb838f66e47664dd923ad8556babf4c5cbe85e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.13773",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}