Pith Number

pith:WG3D3Q6F

pith:2014:WG3D3Q6F5S37GDBGDRG7WZS2I6

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Weighted Difference Approximation of Value Functions for Slow-Discounting Markov Decision Processes

Junjie Qin, Yin-Lam Chow

arxiv:1412.4908 v1 · 2014-12-16 · math.OC

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\pithnumber{WG3D3Q6F5S37GDBGDRG7WZS2I6}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:31:10.144575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1b63dc3c5ecb7f30c261c4dfb665a47a6d0f9066a6412e0b03e5a2df43a28d6

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.4908 · arxiv_version: 1412.4908v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.4908 · pith_short_12: WG3D3Q6F5S37 · pith_short_16: WG3D3Q6F5S37GDBG · pith_short_8: WG3D3Q6F

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WG3D3Q6F5S37GDBGDRG7WZS2I6 \
  | 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: b1b63dc3c5ecb7f30c261c4dfb665a47a6d0f9066a6412e0b03e5a2df43a28d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6b97ee0fb53eab3e989529205edc274f818edbfafa06035ff73d26f6c125e1e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-16T08:12:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "017609ea96a5d6bc3211053c24996504e78d18407838e191b04f908606f01d3e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.4908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}