Pith Number

pith:LNFVZ6BM

pith:2019:LNFVZ6BMCFCAD3Q7Z2WCWZYYXB

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Optimal Control of Complex Systems through Variational Inference with a Discrete Event Decision Process

Bo Liu, Fan Yang, Wen Dong

arxiv:1905.02606 v1 · 2019-05-07 · cs.SY · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNFVZ6BMCFCAD3Q7Z2WCWZYYXB}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:46:50.930649Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b4b5cf82c114401ee1fceac2b6718b858e3d5baa4997e10fee150a0f3bf4585

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.02606 · arxiv_version: 1905.02606v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.02606 · pith_short_12: LNFVZ6BMCFCA · pith_short_16: LNFVZ6BMCFCAD3Q7 · pith_short_8: LNFVZ6BM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LNFVZ6BMCFCAD3Q7Z2WCWZYYXB \
  | 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: 5b4b5cf82c114401ee1fceac2b6718b858e3d5baa4997e10fee150a0f3bf4585

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c63c8df1e0ce5502d953a17b3dd5ebc3565e6326f6a2e5e88635d59629e15396",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-07T14:26:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "82fd52f2515438c772df1b179a1a05ce6b13a8371f886906f6b52717212c0318"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.02606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}