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pith:FEBVSWPH

pith:2024:FEBVSWPHRF4B3W3Q77I7PNJ47V

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On the tensorization of the variational distance

Aryeh Kontorovich

arxiv:2409.10368 v2 · 2024-09-16 · math.PR

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On Computing Total Variation Distance Between Mixtures of Product Distributions

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:14:38.430967Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

29035959e789781ddb70ffd1f7b53cfd7961a90496fcfdd299caa75a1b13f3c0

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arxiv: 2409.10368 · arxiv_version: 2409.10368v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.10368 · pith_short_12: FEBVSWPHRF4B · pith_short_16: FEBVSWPHRF4B3W3Q · pith_short_8: FEBVSWPH

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FEBVSWPHRF4B3W3Q77I7PNJ47V \
  | 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: 29035959e789781ddb70ffd1f7b53cfd7961a90496fcfdd299caa75a1b13f3c0

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