Pith Number

pith:ZBR4BZSM

pith:2017:ZBR4BZSMW4EPGSOOUXV3YAQVXD

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An Empirical Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Continuous MDPs

Hiteshi Sharma, Pengqian Yu, Rahul Jain, William B. Haskell

arxiv:1709.07506 v2 · 2017-09-21 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZBR4BZSMW4EPGSOOUXV3YAQVXD}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:47:54.015232Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c863c0e64cb708f349cea5ebbc0215b8d212ca6e809ccde3a6ecbd92156d5b64

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.07506 · arxiv_version: 1709.07506v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.07506 · pith_short_12: ZBR4BZSMW4EP · pith_short_16: ZBR4BZSMW4EPGSOO · pith_short_8: ZBR4BZSM

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/ZBR4BZSMW4EPGSOOUXV3YAQVXD \
  | 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: c863c0e64cb708f349cea5ebbc0215b8d212ca6e809ccde3a6ecbd92156d5b64

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "85649a18ef35f5c4517a5a3bcc948c32c647ca157d2625bac484bc52d63475c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-21T20:02:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6dac054543c85d56effb8f0cbd2f9f2698717c2fcc50c5f412c9eb87631d34d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.07506",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}