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pith:RIPXK2C4

pith:2019:RIPXK2C4FP4DWIC6Y72QX3SNMF

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Optimizing quantum heuristics with meta-learning

Eleanor Rieffel, Filip Wudarski, Max Wilson, Norm M. Tubman, Sam Stromswold, Stuart Hadfield

arxiv:1908.03185 v1 · 2019-08-08 · quant-ph · cs.NE

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Training the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm without access to a Quantum Processing Unit

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First computed	2026-07-04T23:52:27.046237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a1f75685c2bf83b205ec7f50bee4d6166d43bd53afff526f14b836755043478

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.03185 · arxiv_version: 1908.03185v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.03185 · pith_short_12: RIPXK2C4FP4D · pith_short_16: RIPXK2C4FP4DWIC6 · pith_short_8: RIPXK2C4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RIPXK2C4FP4DWIC6Y72QX3SNMF \
  | 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: 8a1f75685c2bf83b205ec7f50bee4d6166d43bd53afff526f14b836755043478

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5dc64e8f7def32913141209d53db2a0d35c218be74317d4b940f3d769d531c40",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-08T17:31:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e699c9a03e1c73165c43fc2426b952a61bfabdda0f8d0fbec1c7bea657284af9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.03185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}