Pith Number

pith:5OUAS5EX

pith:2015:5OUAS5EXBYICSFLXA6MB6T46FZ

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Black-box $\alpha$-divergence Minimization

Daniel Hern\'andez-Lobato, Jos\'e Miguel Hern\'andez-Lobato, Mark Rowland, Richard E. Turner, Thang Bui, Yingzhen Li

arxiv:1511.03243 v3 · 2015-11-10 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5OUAS5EXBYICSFLXA6MB6T46FZ}

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:09.570877Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eba80974970e1029157707981f4f9e2e63b311ca7b752322cbed03ac6a8a4cb2

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.03243 · arxiv_version: 1511.03243v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.03243 · pith_short_12: 5OUAS5EXBYIC · pith_short_16: 5OUAS5EXBYICSFLX · pith_short_8: 5OUAS5EX

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/5OUAS5EXBYICSFLXA6MB6T46FZ \
  | 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: eba80974970e1029157707981f4f9e2e63b311ca7b752322cbed03ac6a8a4cb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a199002396c9ac8989cc9e0d7a02559ba92ef2a1ed3e56387f993d267257bab9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-10T20:02:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "36cd222f6d03dd41ae60fd0983969c53e89af3f425a99c373210a55c81edbb06"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.03243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}