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pith:HDFNW3WL

pith:2019:HDFNW3WLBND3MBH3IB52JKYQNJ

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On the Existence of Simpler Machine Learning Models

Cynthia Rudin, Lesia Semenova, Ronald Parr

arxiv:1908.01755 v4 · 2019-08-05 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Canonical hash

38cadb6ecb0b47b604fb407ba4ab106a7f2872b23f3bfb9401803c8cb746858a

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arxiv: 1908.01755 · arxiv_version: 1908.01755v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.01755 · pith_short_12: HDFNW3WLBND3 · pith_short_16: HDFNW3WLBND3MBH3 · pith_short_8: HDFNW3WL

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HDFNW3WLBND3MBH3IB52JKYQNJ \
  | 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: 38cadb6ecb0b47b604fb407ba4ab106a7f2872b23f3bfb9401803c8cb746858a

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-05T17:52:53Z",
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