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pith:CBKWNLIA

pith:2017:CBKWNLIAXB76E3LMOAAGWMRD4F

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Distilling a Neural Network Into a Soft Decision Tree

Geoffrey Hinton, Nicholas Frosst

arxiv:1711.09784 v1 · 2017-11-27 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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105566ad00b87fe26d6c70006b3223e1467ad66e644965fa1e3d0075e6f4f4dd

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arxiv: 1711.09784 · arxiv_version: 1711.09784v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09784 · pith_short_12: CBKWNLIAXB76 · pith_short_16: CBKWNLIAXB76E3LM · pith_short_8: CBKWNLIA

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CBKWNLIAXB76E3LMOAAGWMRD4F \
  | 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: 105566ad00b87fe26d6c70006b3223e1467ad66e644965fa1e3d0075e6f4f4dd

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    "submitted_at": "2017-11-27T15:50:50Z",
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