Pith Number

pith:S2RCNKSA

pith:2018:S2RCNKSA27TX3NKNRYQZIDXPSH

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Understanding the impact of entropy on policy optimization

Dale Schuurmans, Mohammad Norouzi, Nicolas Le Roux, Zafarali Ahmed

arxiv:1811.11214 v5 · 2018-11-27 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{S2RCNKSA27TX3NKNRYQZIDXPSH}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:43:50.443542Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96a226aa40d7e77db54d8e21940eef91d03247b09e3e95cb09159dc9c95ee63a

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.11214 · arxiv_version: 1811.11214v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.11214 · pith_short_12: S2RCNKSA27TX · pith_short_16: S2RCNKSA27TX3NKN · pith_short_8: S2RCNKSA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S2RCNKSA27TX3NKNRYQZIDXPSH \
  | 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: 96a226aa40d7e77db54d8e21940eef91d03247b09e3e95cb09159dc9c95ee63a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "34901392f774b10a527c38e01d0dcb7a1475ad44a44036c156bf84bddc1d48b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-27T19:32:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff1f4aab2dfc8332ea5f410aef927ebc3b0a67b5777ef354ebee45c071255654"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.11214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}