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pith:JR7P6XF2

pith:2009:JR7P6XF24LLEOXSIQR7YKGUVRR

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Optimal control as a graphical model inference problem

B. Kappen, M. Opper, V. Gomez

arxiv:0901.0633 v3 · 2009-01-06 · math.OC · cs.SY

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:04:28.690555Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

4c7eff5cbae2d6475e48847f851a958c7af4c8d2765845036829ae5fd72d643e

Aliases

arxiv: 0901.0633 · arxiv_version: 0901.0633v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0901.0633 · pith_short_12: JR7P6XF24LLE · pith_short_16: JR7P6XF24LLEOXSI · pith_short_8: JR7P6XF2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JR7P6XF24LLEOXSIQR7YKGUVRR \
  | 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: 4c7eff5cbae2d6475e48847f851a958c7af4c8d2765845036829ae5fd72d643e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e165a98c6db3431e88039fd40020d8170e3852680ee867f567e131ff13c9cc29",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2009-01-06T11:54:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6f1a1d6202ec08fd6977a959b0982a797c177cd56d1ae54b14b3f0a1926637e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0901.0633",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}