Pith Number

pith:XAPTQCMP

pith:2020:XAPTQCMPC4OLVIRSOMRLBGJGY6

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Giving Up Control: Neurons as Reinforcement Learning Agents

Jordan Ott

arxiv:2003.11642 v1 · 2020-03-17 · cs.NE · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XAPTQCMPC4OLVIRSOMRLBGJGY6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:50:46.170009Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b81f38098f171cbaa2327322b09926c788325a186ba3494a5c6d1b1a1f6749ef

Aliases

arxiv: 2003.11642 · arxiv_version: 2003.11642v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2003.11642 · pith_short_12: XAPTQCMPC4OL · pith_short_16: XAPTQCMPC4OLVIRS · pith_short_8: XAPTQCMP

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XAPTQCMPC4OLVIRSOMRLBGJGY6 \
  | 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: b81f38098f171cbaa2327322b09926c788325a186ba3494a5c6d1b1a1f6749ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4da6e76b6db07035d260b13eaf35b4c45d7889424c3e8110fadab420098d280a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2020-03-17T04:47:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc0e4fdc37c39d30fff2b08887595e37e8f773369ae6727fffaaf9292a164e16"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2003.11642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}