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pith:7F7PDNPZ

pith:2019:7F7PDNPZJ7ZLC4ENN4AWWPEOLI

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Understanding the Limitations of Variational Mutual Information Estimators

Jiaming Song, Stefano Ermon

arxiv:1910.06222 v2 · 2019-10-14 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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Accurate Estimation of Mutual Information in High Dimensional Data

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:50:06.655217Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f97ef1b5f94ff2b1708d6f016b3c8e5a0ed29a029ed4a251c0a0cedf37839d2e

Aliases

arxiv: 1910.06222 · arxiv_version: 1910.06222v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.06222 · pith_short_12: 7F7PDNPZJ7ZL · pith_short_16: 7F7PDNPZJ7ZLC4EN · pith_short_8: 7F7PDNPZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7F7PDNPZJ7ZLC4ENN4AWWPEOLI \
  | 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: f97ef1b5f94ff2b1708d6f016b3c8e5a0ed29a029ed4a251c0a0cedf37839d2e

Canonical record JSON

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      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-10-14T15:45:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0968034286519eaacd477ea08b98714c3fd23c5d90c60d5a511159a7d0963046"
  },
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}