Pith Number

pith:5LR5GJA3

pith:2017:5LR5GJA3WHNFQTWWNTBY2A5JYP

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Backpropagation through the Void: Optimizing control variates for black-box gradient estimation

Dami Choi, David Duvenaud, Geoffrey Roeder, Will Grathwohl, Yuhuai Wu

arxiv:1711.00123 v3 · 2017-10-31 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:39.291334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eae3d3241bb1da584ed66cc38d03a9c3f92f96fe1414ce0f002af914f1a48a45

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00123 · arxiv_version: 1711.00123v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00123 · pith_short_12: 5LR5GJA3WHNF · pith_short_16: 5LR5GJA3WHNFQTWW · pith_short_8: 5LR5GJA3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5LR5GJA3WHNFQTWWNTBY2A5JYP \
  | 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: eae3d3241bb1da584ed66cc38d03a9c3f92f96fe1414ce0f002af914f1a48a45

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "853abf20b149955c8efe04b082832a0292cadd30781781a965453672fb7484bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-31T21:58:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f51f987287647db3cab345093a29e297bdbf7f5deebd0a8b7158732ac1aa32fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00123",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}