Paper on "Application of deep and reinforcement learning to boundary control problems"

Recently, I wrote a paper based on my master thesis project, which I had attempted to submit to AAAI conference. However, the attempt was futile as the reviewers did not really like it. It was quite interesting to see that at least some of the comments by the reviewers are contradictory with each other; it looks like I am not the only one who is lazy to read.

Anyway, I decided to make it available for the public via arXiv and viXra. The following are the links to the same.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15191
https://vixra.org/abs/2310.0118

Originally, I had only planned on submitting this to arXiv. When I checked the submission portal a couple of hours after the scheduled publishing time, I saw that the article was put "On Hold" from being published. I searched for the reasons for the same, and I read in a few places that sometimes arXiv takes a lot of time to publish them once put on hold, and sometimes they just don't publish them at all. Therefore, I decided to submit it to viXra as well.

Interestingly, arXiv published my article a day following when it was originally scheduled to be published; and viXra published it just about 30 minutes after arXiv.

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