Pith Number

pith:HWOHNVTM

pith:2018:HWOHNVTM4VLNB73B5QP2ZMJZI3

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A minimax near-optimal algorithm for adaptive rejection sampling

Alexandra Carpentier, Gilles Blanchard, Joseph C. Lam, Juliette Achdou

arxiv:1810.09390 v1 · 2018-10-22 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{HWOHNVTM4VLNB73B5QP2ZMJZI3}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:40.228275Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d9c76d66ce556d0ff61ec1facb13946cc126491b32584f84f341b03dadbce28

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.09390 · arxiv_version: 1810.09390v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.09390 · pith_short_12: HWOHNVTM4VLN · pith_short_16: HWOHNVTM4VLNB73B · pith_short_8: HWOHNVTM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HWOHNVTM4VLNB73B5QP2ZMJZI3 \
  | 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: 3d9c76d66ce556d0ff61ec1facb13946cc126491b32584f84f341b03dadbce28

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "caa2fa35a882fd18366d73857693aa35ddfec924ba3f8e0bd763065e00824d3f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-22T16:22:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb903ad79c382e01a1cea57341435c0e5230138a9aed44a867f95a062ef7498b"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1810.09390",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}