Pith Number

pith:4JF6VAUU

pith:2018:4JF6VAUUW5LR3KYMJ4IPOFTWBQ

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Improved Gradient-Based Optimization Over Discrete Distributions

Arash Vahdat, Bill Macready, Evgeny Andriyash

arxiv:1810.00116 v3 · 2018-09-29 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4JF6VAUUW5LR3KYMJ4IPOFTWBQ}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:43:17.498541Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e24bea8294b7571dab0c4f10f716760c3be7065e1f8a74126943ca2f61e30cd5

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.00116 · arxiv_version: 1810.00116v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.00116 · pith_short_12: 4JF6VAUUW5LR · pith_short_16: 4JF6VAUUW5LR3KYM · pith_short_8: 4JF6VAUU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4JF6VAUUW5LR3KYMJ4IPOFTWBQ \
  | 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: e24bea8294b7571dab0c4f10f716760c3be7065e1f8a74126943ca2f61e30cd5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53105f78b204616f687d9e6e22783b80e2fe9fb5a9304fcd39a64cf4e338c1bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-29T00:07:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d98716c427c10df83b2267750079abb658891d5d657c75e0fd2491d0383a2f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.00116",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}