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pith:BU5DMI3S

pith:2018:BU5DMI3SQGJHTJ2QX2WXQT43HN

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Novel Approaches to Accelerating the Convergence Rate of Markov Decision Process for Search Result Diversification

Feng Liu, Huifeng Guo, Ruiming Tang, Xiuqiang He, Xutao Li, Yunming Ye

arxiv:1802.08401 v1 · 2018-02-23 · cs.IR

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:43.823433Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d3a362372819279a750bead784f9b3b627d962badbc2b96a3bb261f321ca3c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.08401 · arxiv_version: 1802.08401v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.08401 · pith_short_12: BU5DMI3SQGJH · pith_short_16: BU5DMI3SQGJHTJ2Q · pith_short_8: BU5DMI3S

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BU5DMI3SQGJHTJ2QX2WXQT43HN \
  | 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: 0d3a362372819279a750bead784f9b3b627d962badbc2b96a3bb261f321ca3c9

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-23T06:08:28Z",
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