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pith:GY65B3NE

pith:2018:GY65B3NE6D2ETDPWFHF7ASMEKQ

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Using Large Ensembles of Control Variates for Variational Inference

Justin Domke, Tomas Geffner

arxiv:1810.12482 v2 · 2018-10-30 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{GY65B3NE6D2ETDPWFHF7ASMEKQ}

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:45:00.675150Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

363dd0eda4f0f4498df629cbf0498454122965eb3f2d3b89cd767c61e7e80878

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12482 · arxiv_version: 1810.12482v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12482 · pith_short_12: GY65B3NE6D2E · pith_short_16: GY65B3NE6D2ETDPW · pith_short_8: GY65B3NE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GY65B3NE6D2ETDPWFHF7ASMEKQ \
  | 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: 363dd0eda4f0f4498df629cbf0498454122965eb3f2d3b89cd767c61e7e80878

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2eb23e42a68735990c0e8c8cb4030b69d017c11d4cde9a80c491efcfb4a1e9e0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T01:48:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74f529bae040d03be632df0b84a8dbcb8091f987ee11b56bc164bf27a21f7a3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12482",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}