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pith:52ZSAXSN

pith:2020:52ZSAXSNDCDRLW2IDEZJRZHAMW

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The equivalence between Stein variational gradient descent and black-box variational inference

Casey Chu, Kenji Fukumizu, Kentaro Minami

arxiv:2004.01822 v1 · 2020-04-04 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{52ZSAXSNDCDRLW2IDEZJRZHAMW}

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:52:38.671197Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eeb3205e4d188715db48193298e4e065a9a82c806b243bf7ab76b9f0259252c3

Aliases

arxiv: 2004.01822 · arxiv_version: 2004.01822v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2004.01822 · pith_short_12: 52ZSAXSNDCDR · pith_short_16: 52ZSAXSNDCDRLW2I · pith_short_8: 52ZSAXSN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/52ZSAXSNDCDRLW2IDEZJRZHAMW \
  | 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: eeb3205e4d188715db48193298e4e065a9a82c806b243bf7ab76b9f0259252c3

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-04-04T00:39:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c757edeb5c72d7993da0c84b0c718b810f8af9b5f01cb3595f53ad5ee78a0cc"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}