Pith Number

pith:EUKYQP6R

pith:2011:EUKYQP6ROKH6GXS7JJWYG5MFJN

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The Local Optimality of Reinforcement Learning by Value Gradients, and its Relationship to Policy Gradient Learning

Eduardo Alonso, Michael Fairbank

arxiv:1101.0428 v1 · 2011-01-02 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{EUKYQP6ROKH6GXS7JJWYG5MFJN}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:32:10.383430Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2515883fd1728fe35e5f4a6d8375854b64ef8db1d76134685da2120fdfef18a3

Aliases

arxiv: 1101.0428 · arxiv_version: 1101.0428v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.0428 · pith_short_12: EUKYQP6ROKH6 · pith_short_16: EUKYQP6ROKH6GXS7 · pith_short_8: EUKYQP6R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EUKYQP6ROKH6GXS7JJWYG5MFJN \
  | 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: 2515883fd1728fe35e5f4a6d8375854b64ef8db1d76134685da2120fdfef18a3

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2011-01-02T20:20:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "290763cccc2332f1644a43e6bc1352cfcfeb2c381b9a65c9041d1061572f2055"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1101.0428",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}