Pith Number

pith:Z6SZVBWY

pith:2018:Z6SZVBWY3WF3SFPCI4RXRYMOOY

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Scalable Coordinated Exploration in Concurrent Reinforcement Learning

Benjamin Van Roy, Ian Osband, Maria Dimakopoulou

arxiv:1805.08948 v2 · 2018-05-23 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z6SZVBWY3WF3SFPCI4RXRYMOOY}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:58:14.261327Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cfa59a86d8dd8bb915e2472378e18e76144844077a8144c565ecde6290a1822a

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.08948 · arxiv_version: 1805.08948v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.08948 · pith_short_12: Z6SZVBWY3WF3 · pith_short_16: Z6SZVBWY3WF3SFPC · pith_short_8: Z6SZVBWY

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/Z6SZVBWY3WF3SFPCI4RXRYMOOY \
  | 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: cfa59a86d8dd8bb915e2472378e18e76144844077a8144c565ecde6290a1822a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e94475dea29327f21199954df791f86cb5a237353eff2e60a601e4c855437c88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-23T03:36:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e15cf273d38d7b97eabe840c2a444139fe818de475da6b5353e4ddf39d806388"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.08948",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}