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pith:WQTOUHCD

pith:2017:WQTOUHCD3RVESJG4LAULAOJF7O

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A Nearly Instance Optimal Algorithm for Top-k Ranking under the Multinomial Logit Model

Jieming Mao, Xi Chen, Yuanzhi Li

arxiv:1707.08238 v2 · 2017-07-25 · cs.DS · stat.ML

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Canonical hash

b426ea1c43dc6a4924dc5828b03925fbbcbeb12c1b50b79cfbe61d1b3b23d177

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arxiv: 1707.08238 · arxiv_version: 1707.08238v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.08238 · pith_short_12: WQTOUHCD3RVE · pith_short_16: WQTOUHCD3RVESJG4 · pith_short_8: WQTOUHCD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WQTOUHCD3RVESJG4LAULAOJF7O \
  | 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: b426ea1c43dc6a4924dc5828b03925fbbcbeb12c1b50b79cfbe61d1b3b23d177

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-25T22:03:21Z",
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