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pith:GQIE4YWF

pith:2018:GQIE4YWFNF6XKFMJXJYLGDM422

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A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Log-concave Densities

Alistair Stewart, Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Ilias Diakonikolas

arxiv:1812.05524 v1 · 2018-12-13 · cs.DS

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A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Log-Concave Maximum Likelihood via Locally Exponential Families

Locally Near Optimal Piecewise Linear Regression in High Dimensions via Difference of Max-Affine Functions

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Canonical hash

34104e62c5697d751589ba70b30d9cd69ee9091a91e2ea111f4d7794fd6ece95

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arxiv: 1812.05524 · arxiv_version: 1812.05524v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.05524 · pith_short_12: GQIE4YWFNF6X · pith_short_16: GQIE4YWFNF6XKFMJ · pith_short_8: GQIE4YWF

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GQIE4YWFNF6XKFMJXJYLGDM422 \
  | 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: 34104e62c5697d751589ba70b30d9cd69ee9091a91e2ea111f4d7794fd6ece95

Canonical record JSON

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    "submitted_at": "2018-12-13T17:09:21Z",
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