Pith Number

pith:Y74VH3AY

pith:2018:Y74VH3AYFC3N6ZGAT7CKY6P5G3

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Exploration versus exploitation in reinforcement learning: a stochastic control approach

Haoran Wang, Thaleia Zariphopoulou, Xunyu Zhou

arxiv:1812.01552 v3 · 2018-12-04 · math.OC · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y74VH3AYFC3N6ZGAT7CKY6P5G3}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:06.950994Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7f953ec1828b6df64c09fc4ac79fd36dcabea65098c32a31940c5b2bce1f516

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.01552 · arxiv_version: 1812.01552v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.01552 · pith_short_12: Y74VH3AYFC3N · pith_short_16: Y74VH3AYFC3N6ZGA · pith_short_8: Y74VH3AY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y74VH3AYFC3N6ZGAT7CKY6P5G3 \
  | 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: c7f953ec1828b6df64c09fc4ac79fd36dcabea65098c32a31940c5b2bce1f516

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6c08c244822bf9c2bd18d84c58eed782cdadf094802d3132b1a2d7bb3d0ebf1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-04T17:46:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9c1b2f818f522654429252a2ae675f7f0b932d38f965f392ecdefce3df05614"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.01552",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}