Pith Number

pith:TBZZD7QH

pith:2021:TBZZD7QH6HYRTBO5VRF7MZOKAU

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Understanding the Effect of Stochasticity in Policy Optimization

Bo Dai, Chenjun Xiao, Csaba Szepesvari, Dale Schuurmans, Jincheng Mei

arxiv:2110.15572 v1 · 2021-10-29 · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{TBZZD7QH6HYRTBO5VRF7MZOKAU}

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:27:11.353216Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

987391fe07f1f11985ddac4bf665ca051d2bb05997cdfc1c707766c658766340

Aliases

arxiv: 2110.15572 · arxiv_version: 2110.15572v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.15572 · pith_short_12: TBZZD7QH6HYR · pith_short_16: TBZZD7QH6HYRTBO5 · pith_short_8: TBZZD7QH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TBZZD7QH6HYRTBO5VRF7MZOKAU \
  | 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: 987391fe07f1f11985ddac4bf665ca051d2bb05997cdfc1c707766c658766340

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "442aea086bd446b9ef8fc3d4099765321bd80abc8ad93eb08f1119d55cad9697",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-10-29T06:35:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0dbb164bb0b06e36033a4df212f837d2e837943c10485d5770a398a5f003b45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2110.15572",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}