Pith Number

pith:V4M32V5V

pith:2026:V4M32V5VIMCZA43XOHJYRSPG4R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Deep Reinforcement Learning: From First Principles to Reasoning Models

Ghoshana Bista

arxiv:2608.00133 v1 · 2026-07-31 · eess.SY · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4M32V5VIMCZA43XOHJYRSPG4R}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-08-04T00:33:00.815240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af19bd57b5430590737771d388c9e6e47765a6c327c7e40a2a39985473dc1033

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.00133 · arxiv_version: 2608.00133v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.00133 · pith_short_12: V4M32V5VIMCZ · pith_short_16: V4M32V5VIMCZA43X · pith_short_8: V4M32V5V

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/V4M32V5VIMCZA43XOHJYRSPG4R \
  | 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: af19bd57b5430590737771d388c9e6e47765a6c327c7e40a2a39985473dc1033

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ff428cea8299923a18a50d77ef40e8e44dbf829b6a515e79a00208eb5334bcf7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "eess.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-31T13:57:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8079b9aace660d29988c338d5f2620c47025419dae07abd45d1a65921129e30f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.00133",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}