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pith:WID7QOXW

pith:2017:WID7QOXWKJQE35BICP3WHMYKGE

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Equivalence Between Policy Gradients and Soft Q-Learning

John Schulman, Pieter Abbeel, Xi Chen

arxiv:1704.06440 v4 · 2017-04-21 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:25.093186Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

b207f83af652604df42813f763b30a3125ee0b196676c3ead9123dfe78b4f6ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.06440 · arxiv_version: 1704.06440v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.06440 · pith_short_12: WID7QOXWKJQE · pith_short_16: WID7QOXWKJQE35BI · pith_short_8: WID7QOXW

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WID7QOXWKJQE35BICP3WHMYKGE \
  | 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: b207f83af652604df42813f763b30a3125ee0b196676c3ead9123dfe78b4f6ce

Canonical record JSON

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    "submitted_at": "2017-04-21T08:33:59Z",
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