Pith Number

pith:2DZU5FAW

pith:2018:2DZU5FAWNB7K7EG3HDK6DDLT4P

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Correlated pseudo-marginal Metropolis-Hastings using quasi-Newton proposals

Adrian Wills, Brett Ninness, Johan Dahlin

arxiv:1806.09780 v2 · 2018-06-26 · stat.CO · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2DZU5FAWNB7K7EG3HDK6DDLT4P}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:41.346183Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0f34e9416687eaf90db38d5e18d73e3c9555c6ee26d0e46380561da520aa33e

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.09780 · arxiv_version: 1806.09780v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.09780 · pith_short_12: 2DZU5FAWNB7K · pith_short_16: 2DZU5FAWNB7K7EG3 · pith_short_8: 2DZU5FAW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2DZU5FAWNB7K7EG3HDK6DDLT4P \
  | 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: d0f34e9416687eaf90db38d5e18d73e3c9555c6ee26d0e46380561da520aa33e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "099522ef3ac0fc14d012c69453b184565aa98c3a645f7933777349849b74867d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-26T03:17:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45cbec83186d7052aff652e7ac475d1c7e975576c0fa06f62c8cd87b86e5e294"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.09780",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}