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pith:MUJMV2NK

pith:2017:MUJMV2NKG3NF2XVW2A362QYKKH

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BBQ-Networks: Efficient Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems

Faisal Ahmed, Jianfeng Gao, Li Deng, Lihong Li, Xiujun Li, Zachary Lipton

arxiv:1711.05715 v2 · 2017-11-15 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:15.997862Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

6512cae9aa36da5d5eb6d037ed430a51cde20ce85dda22aeef9b7a698105dc99

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arxiv: 1711.05715 · arxiv_version: 1711.05715v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.05715 · pith_short_12: MUJMV2NKG3NF · pith_short_16: MUJMV2NKG3NF2XVW · pith_short_8: MUJMV2NK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MUJMV2NKG3NF2XVW2A362QYKKH \
  | 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: 6512cae9aa36da5d5eb6d037ed430a51cde20ce85dda22aeef9b7a698105dc99

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-15T18:23:48Z",
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