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pith:7Q5TH4GW

pith:2014:7Q5TH4GWFDF5FAYSD5VVX43BFW

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Near-optimal Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs

Benjamin Van Roy, Ian Osband

arxiv:1403.3741 v3 · 2014-03-15 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{7Q5TH4GWFDF5FAYSD5VVX43BFW}

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:38:53.013474Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fc3b33f0d628cbd283121f6b5bf3612da0a500ec950c1105c91de292a1633636

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.3741 · arxiv_version: 1403.3741v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.3741 · pith_short_12: 7Q5TH4GWFDF5 · pith_short_16: 7Q5TH4GWFDF5FAYS · pith_short_8: 7Q5TH4GW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7Q5TH4GWFDF5FAYSD5VVX43BFW \
  | 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: fc3b33f0d628cbd283121f6b5bf3612da0a500ec950c1105c91de292a1633636

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cda601c585471bd8b7626b08bf3e002e400a0c45060eb0b345e175b850a7f515",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2014-03-15T01:56:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0de950f302cbb32fc4d9b98bbc1371275d4d68adf810250159b062c94fad6653"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.3741",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}