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pith:UKOXY56Q

pith:2013:UKOXY56QHBJEVEZY63XTLGS7OR

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The Optimal Reward Baseline for Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning

Lex Weaver, Nigel Tao

arxiv:1301.2315 v1 · 2013-01-10 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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a29d7c77d038524a9338f6ef359a5f746306b661bbc67240f3b9fdbbd46d9ff4

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arxiv: 1301.2315 · arxiv_version: 1301.2315v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.2315 · pith_short_12: UKOXY56QHBJE · pith_short_16: UKOXY56QHBJEVEZY · pith_short_8: UKOXY56Q

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UKOXY56QHBJEVEZY63XTLGS7OR \
  | 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: a29d7c77d038524a9338f6ef359a5f746306b661bbc67240f3b9fdbbd46d9ff4

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-10T16:26:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0512690abe75423e8d2b65f491496bad633cede55d51dda2379cb0e94f068227"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}