Pith Number

pith:EODQVFTI

pith:2020:EODQVFTIACB7DMS5Y4GWRRZCBN

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Unbiased Gradient Estimation for Variational Auto-Encoders using Coupled Markov Chains

Arnaud Doucet, Francisco J. R. Ruiz, Michalis K. Titsias, Taylan Cemgil

arxiv:2010.01845 v2 · 2020-10-05 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EODQVFTIACB7DMS5Y4GWRRZCBN}

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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	2026-07-05T02:45:33.702363Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23870a96680083f1b25dc70d68c7220b62827f6f6c8935685c99189d587f0e38

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.01845 · arxiv_version: 2010.01845v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.01845 · pith_short_12: EODQVFTIACB7 · pith_short_16: EODQVFTIACB7DMS5 · pith_short_8: EODQVFTI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EODQVFTIACB7DMS5Y4GWRRZCBN \
  | 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: 23870a96680083f1b25dc70d68c7220b62827f6f6c8935685c99189d587f0e38

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bb9b3e85b27d098f1fe978de1d6ff436b465aaf03cadc8a88c322a2fe9abebe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-05T08:11:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f17de84c1f2a3500db5d57c46aca28fc7a37af1bd231a865f4a74469a0ddffd6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.01845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}