Pith Number

pith:U3ULK3BC

pith:2018:U3ULK3BCZMGWY6S4P6IV4V7HQ4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Predicting Periodicity with Temporal Difference Learning

Brendan Bennett, Kristopher De Asis, Richard S. Sutton

arxiv:1809.07435 v1 · 2018-09-20 · cs.LG · cs.AI · eess.SP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U3ULK3BCZMGWY6S4P6IV4V7HQ4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:16.319031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6e8b56c22cb0d6c7a5c7f915e57e787253afa8a27b8491c0cb053126471b52a

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.07435 · arxiv_version: 1809.07435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.07435 · pith_short_12: U3ULK3BCZMGW · pith_short_16: U3ULK3BCZMGWY6S4 · pith_short_8: U3ULK3BC

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U3ULK3BCZMGWY6S4P6IV4V7HQ4 \
  | 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: a6e8b56c22cb0d6c7a5c7f915e57e787253afa8a27b8491c0cb053126471b52a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "36ad3a6bb05ec4ae72d47aa9395e4d811f9590ddeea5fbf2b8fa2a00e83d1739",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "eess.SP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-20T00:07:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f959ef0a5f52c9680871dee1ea341f1215cd81d0e5b6fcf1ec23005d293d4a90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.07435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}