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pith:CZWEEENR

pith:2024:CZWEEENR5IKD2Q7VZWCCFOB3M3

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Variance Reduction for the Independent Metropolis Sampler

Michalis K. Titsias, Petros Dellaportas, Siran Liu

arxiv:2406.17699 v2 · 2024-06-25 · math.ST · cs.LG · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:21:05.884833Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

166c4211b1ea143d43f5cd8422b83b66c486f5da718745382beacf4131a53e7e

Aliases

arxiv: 2406.17699 · arxiv_version: 2406.17699v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.17699 · pith_short_12: CZWEEENR5IKD · pith_short_16: CZWEEENR5IKD2Q7V · pith_short_8: CZWEEENR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CZWEEENR5IKD2Q7VZWCCFOB3M3 \
  | 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: 166c4211b1ea143d43f5cd8422b83b66c486f5da718745382beacf4131a53e7e

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-25T16:38:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0169f971e2c5039385d8ba58e619dc71808a249d32af7c354ce00af6b7a500dc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}