Pith Number

pith:XYDGOYHY

pith:2026:XYDGOYHYDGSTONO5MOID5RCRPQ

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Second-Order Actor-Critic Methods for Discounted MDPs via Policy Hessian Decomposition

Sanjeev Manivannan, Shuban V

arxiv:2605.14982 v1 · 2026-05-14 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XYDGOYHYDGSTONO5MOID5RCRPQ}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:38:55.101395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

be066760f819a53735dd63903ec4517c15f37c0abb0dd3d0ed1637161b997d80

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.14982 · arxiv_version: 2605.14982v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14982 · pith_short_12: XYDGOYHYDGST · pith_short_16: XYDGOYHYDGSTONO5 · pith_short_8: XYDGOYHY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XYDGOYHYDGSTONO5MOID5RCRPQ \
  | 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: be066760f819a53735dd63903ec4517c15f37c0abb0dd3d0ed1637161b997d80

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5906d02392c7c54537a091eaee7f64a57bc6477e63d29899720b271b3bb95f62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-14T15:46:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a61aa3fb6328845f77aa519d0b7f33294e498d066059ddbd328e0bc5450d4e0e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.14982",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}