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pith:LB23BTCS

pith:2018:LB23BTCS5B4MRQDYNJ5MNHQD6C

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The Entropy of Artificial Intelligence and a Case Study of AlphaZero from Shannon's Perspective

Bin Chen, Bo Zhang, Jin-Lin Peng

arxiv:1812.05794 v2 · 2018-12-14 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{LB23BTCS5B4MRQDYNJ5MNHQD6C}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:58:13.195239Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5875b0cc52e878c8c0786a7ac69e03f0b3622599824fc8a2e769d7340bb94d95

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.05794 · arxiv_version: 1812.05794v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.05794 · pith_short_12: LB23BTCS5B4M · pith_short_16: LB23BTCS5B4MRQDY · pith_short_8: LB23BTCS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LB23BTCS5B4MRQDYNJ5MNHQD6C \
  | 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: 5875b0cc52e878c8c0786a7ac69e03f0b3622599824fc8a2e769d7340bb94d95

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf414c15fbfb4967536f48bf335e1a318b7dd33858f72676702eea5cb9c308ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-14T06:06:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4cef8a6809b001f8ae98bb860d7213521a345e80fc5c55d266d0a8c5607b2e96"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.05794",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}