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pith:VP2GYSLN

pith:2021:VP2GYSLNTGU67QXTMJHE3HKF4R

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Sample and Communication-Efficient Decentralized Actor-Critic Algorithms with Finite-Time Analysis

Rongrong Chen, Shaofeng Zou, Yi Zhou, Ziyi Chen

arxiv:2109.03699 v2 · 2021-09-08 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:53:49.125651Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abf46c496d99a9efc2f3624e4d9d45e4658a036baba7e16eddfd40f19508e197

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.03699 · arxiv_version: 2109.03699v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.03699 · pith_short_12: VP2GYSLNTGU6 · pith_short_16: VP2GYSLNTGU67QXT · pith_short_8: VP2GYSLN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VP2GYSLNTGU67QXTMJHE3HKF4R \
  | 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: abf46c496d99a9efc2f3624e4d9d45e4658a036baba7e16eddfd40f19508e197

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-08T15:02:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13cc8bd4bb9bee1561279c82c84dc175c841c58b73d362d2925e33ac010c86a7"
  },
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