Pith Number

pith:RZ2W23OH

pith:2012:RZ2W23OHJQJVDJFUTGLRGJAAPM

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Methods for computing state similarity in Markov Decision Processes

Doina Precup, Norman Ferns, Pablo Samuel Castro, Prakash Panangaden

arxiv:1206.6836 v1 · 2012-06-27 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{RZ2W23OHJQJVDJFUTGLRGJAAPM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:52:15.690056Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e756d6dc74c1351a4b499971324007b3ce8a2f5df91c2dafb23739bbceeb2aa

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.6836 · arxiv_version: 1206.6836v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.6836 · pith_short_12: RZ2W23OHJQJV · pith_short_16: RZ2W23OHJQJVDJFU · pith_short_8: RZ2W23OH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RZ2W23OHJQJVDJFUTGLRGJAAPM \
  | 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: 8e756d6dc74c1351a4b499971324007b3ce8a2f5df91c2dafb23739bbceeb2aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dad6235608b9c3be1d0914a3ff1b88af9c06d771425d173860c96bcd4cf3be32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-27T16:18:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9c3ea95eae99fe40200df3f48773307c0bf5e7c3cdc64363e619df86544416b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.6836",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}