Pith Number

pith:XRKYGBEJ

pith:2017:XRKYGBEJAOGRLYDHL7MMKRKCBV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Generalized Bellman Equations and Temporal-Difference Learning

A. Rupam Mahmood, Huizhen Yu, Richard S. Sutton

arxiv:1704.04463 v2 · 2017-04-14 · cs.LG · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XRKYGBEJAOGRLYDHL7MMKRKCBV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:02.612260Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc55830489038d15e0675fd8c545420d5f3d786b68092553104b8ce189377574

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04463 · arxiv_version: 1704.04463v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04463 · pith_short_12: XRKYGBEJAOGR · pith_short_16: XRKYGBEJAOGRLYDH · pith_short_8: XRKYGBEJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XRKYGBEJAOGRLYDHL7MMKRKCBV \
  | 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: bc55830489038d15e0675fd8c545420d5f3d786b68092553104b8ce189377574

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87242b79356e142bb68892276aba0aa00761ccbbde430823e2076d72d42c18d3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-14T16:01:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0b24e7f0c5b9246a7bbfe0f80989672d9b6a965fbc82e6c864d79857e285606c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.04463",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}