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pith:X3O5THQB

pith:2021:X3O5THQBIYM4TP3JI6VRS5WKUW

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A general class of surrogate functions for stable and efficient reinforcement learning

Marlos C. Machado, Matthieu Geist, Nicolas Le Roux, Olivier Bachem, Pablo Samuel Castro, Robert Mueller, Sharan Vaswani, Shivam Garg, Simone Totaro

arxiv:2108.05828 v5 · 2021-08-12 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:07:02.676509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

beddd99e014619c9bf6947ab1976caa58ac73eee9ea4167cbbfac1f3a5909341

Aliases

arxiv: 2108.05828 · arxiv_version: 2108.05828v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.05828 · pith_short_12: X3O5THQBIYM4 · pith_short_16: X3O5THQBIYM4TP3J · pith_short_8: X3O5THQB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X3O5THQBIYM4TP3JI6VRS5WKUW \
  | 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: beddd99e014619c9bf6947ab1976caa58ac73eee9ea4167cbbfac1f3a5909341

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-12T16:19:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6222cb7cc9e9886d41c817738d2c3b8eed032e3e3ed65880b9545de9250952f3"
  },
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  }
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