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pith:BUOIJYVI

pith:2018:BUOIJYVIQJXM2JNVXPRBSJGKSF

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Alpha-Beta Divergence For Variational Inference

Jean-Baptiste Regli, Ricardo Silva

arxiv:1805.01045 v2 · 2018-05-02 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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A note on the unique properties of the Kullback--Leibler divergence for sampling via gradient flows

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:36.208645Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

0d1c84e2a8826ecd25b5bbe21924ca9149077674403664715c4395b5a082b578

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.01045 · arxiv_version: 1805.01045v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.01045 · pith_short_12: BUOIJYVIQJXM · pith_short_16: BUOIJYVIQJXM2JNV · pith_short_8: BUOIJYVI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BUOIJYVIQJXM2JNVXPRBSJGKSF \
  | 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: 0d1c84e2a8826ecd25b5bbe21924ca9149077674403664715c4395b5a082b578

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "378919b2efbd2310a438392f1fffac82b1716acb244858440c5a4300c4410aa2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-02T22:22:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12807e3875485e7b6ba150971a7930b56f08e88e0a5ee687ec55ce4cf67cc076"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1805.01045",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}