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pith:2025:VH25IYYEVCHBKFZAJRTPT7E56V

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Rethinking the Global Convergence of Softmax Policy Gradient with Linear Function Approximation

Alekh Agarwal, Bo Dai, Csaba Szepesvari, Dale Schuurmans, Jincheng Mei, Matin Aghaei, Max Qiushi Lin, Michael Lu, Sharan Vaswani

arxiv:2505.03155 v1 · 2025-05-06 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:59:10.955473Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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a9f5d46304a88e1517204c66f9fc9df55c5da4e826e6d39c6cd386623139a55d

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arxiv: 2505.03155 · arxiv_version: 2505.03155v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.03155 · pith_short_12: VH25IYYEVCHB · pith_short_16: VH25IYYEVCHBKFZA · pith_short_8: VH25IYYE

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VH25IYYEVCHBKFZAJRTPT7E56V \
  | 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: a9f5d46304a88e1517204c66f9fc9df55c5da4e826e6d39c6cd386623139a55d

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    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-06T04:03:06Z",
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