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pith:FGVE7APQ

pith:2014:FGVE7APQ5V6EV7XY2MIPDGKBAN

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Near-optimal-sample estimators for spherical Gaussian mixtures

Alon Orlitsky, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Ashkan Jafarpour, Jayadev Acharya

arxiv:1402.4746 v1 · 2014-02-19 · cs.LG · cs.DS · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:58:33.291496Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

29aa4f81f0ed7c4afef8d310f19941037be04d498a7bed9cb53461d672290564

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.4746 · arxiv_version: 1402.4746v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.4746 · pith_short_12: FGVE7APQ5V6E · pith_short_16: FGVE7APQ5V6EV7XY · pith_short_8: FGVE7APQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FGVE7APQ5V6EV7XY2MIPDGKBAN \
  | 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: 29aa4f81f0ed7c4afef8d310f19941037be04d498a7bed9cb53461d672290564

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.ML"
    ],
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    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-19T17:59:55Z",
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