Pith Number

pith:N5W7WYPH

pith:2015:N5W7WYPHYGAZCZQWQGIEZAQOEY

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A constrained optimization perspective on actor critic algorithms and application to network routing

H.L. Prasad, Prakash Chandra, Prashanth L.A., Shalabh Bhatnagar

arxiv:1507.07984 v1 · 2015-07-28 · cs.LG · math.OC

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\pithnumber{N5W7WYPHYGAZCZQWQGIEZAQOEY}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:36:08.741788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f6dfb61e7c18191661681904c820e2630fc109df0f41906c60a8d41557b5b10

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.07984 · arxiv_version: 1507.07984v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.07984 · pith_short_12: N5W7WYPHYGAZ · pith_short_16: N5W7WYPHYGAZCZQW · pith_short_8: N5W7WYPH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N5W7WYPHYGAZCZQWQGIEZAQOEY \
  | 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: 6f6dfb61e7c18191661681904c820e2630fc109df0f41906c60a8d41557b5b10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b74134f177b94713c88f44f0f2088d35b9c18392dae5322975c149036e7c9395",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-28T23:25:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc5988ca1055197e2512245e87b64605e460789b4db4551364583eb39d0f3d9b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.07984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}