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pith:2017:OUZWBZG64JG5MJEBZAH3CF7T34
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When Waiting is not an Option : Learning Options with a Deliberation Cost

Doina Precup, Jean Harb, Martin Klissarov, Pierre-Luc Bacon

arxiv:1709.04571 v1 · 2017-09-14 · cs.AI

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Canonical hash

753360e4dee24dd62481c80fb117f3df2dc9b89f1386dba5183a7cf0e890bdb2

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arxiv: 1709.04571 · arxiv_version: 1709.04571v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.04571 · pith_short_12: OUZWBZG64JG5 · pith_short_16: OUZWBZG64JG5MJEB · pith_short_8: OUZWBZG6
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OUZWBZG64JG5MJEBZAH3CF7T34 \
  | 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: 753360e4dee24dd62481c80fb117f3df2dc9b89f1386dba5183a7cf0e890bdb2
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-14T00:18:44Z",
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  },
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