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pith:RNGRIJL4

pith:2017:RNGRIJL4HVGRUWOZ365I3MB65T

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Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning

Ilya Sutskever, Jonathan Ho, Szymon Sidor, Tim Salimans, Xi Chen

arxiv:1703.03864 v2 · 2017-03-10 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG · cs.NE

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Canonical hash

8b4d14257c3d4d1a59d9dfba8db03eecc1e91f8e40ddef472d0df1c9dbdccb25

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.03864 · arxiv_version: 1703.03864v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.03864 · pith_short_12: RNGRIJL4HVGR · pith_short_16: RNGRIJL4HVGRUWOZ · pith_short_8: RNGRIJL4

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RNGRIJL4HVGRUWOZ365I3MB65T \
  | 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: 8b4d14257c3d4d1a59d9dfba8db03eecc1e91f8e40ddef472d0df1c9dbdccb25

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
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    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-10T23:02:19Z",
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