Pith Number

pith:72ZP3Y7Z

pith:2018:72ZP3Y7ZSQAAHUTF6MPBL2YRO2

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A Spectral Approach to Gradient Estimation for Implicit Distributions

Jiaxin Shi, Jun Zhu, Shengyang Sun

arxiv:1806.02925 v1 · 2018-06-07 · stat.ML · cs.LG · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{72ZP3Y7ZSQAAHUTF6MPBL2YRO2}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:13:54.294797Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

feb2fde3f9940003d265f31e15eb1176b3a43f136a570a18e121afb4adb79686

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.02925 · arxiv_version: 1806.02925v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.02925 · pith_short_12: 72ZP3Y7ZSQAA · pith_short_16: 72ZP3Y7ZSQAAHUTF · pith_short_8: 72ZP3Y7Z

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/72ZP3Y7ZSQAAHUTF6MPBL2YRO2 \
  | 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: feb2fde3f9940003d265f31e15eb1176b3a43f136a570a18e121afb4adb79686

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c931d80926d4560bc27681085330c8dd486a045088bebd607b576f054a19882c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-07T23:30:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2d745624bfa16361ce1cd69845f767e3f7d1649336e4ba90b00f602a2afe0a66"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.02925",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}