Pith Number

pith:IWQETABZ

pith:2026:IWQETABZKTJUDODK6KXB36NHSL

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From Continuous Dynamics to Practical Gradient-Based Samplers

James Chok

arxiv:2608.05425 v1 · 2026-08-05 · stat.CO · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IWQETABZKTJUDODK6KXB36NHSL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-07T00:47:50.610321Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45a049803954d341b86af2ae1df9a792cf22e16e32786e246e4b2188ba17a762

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05425 · arxiv_version: 2608.05425v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05425 · pith_short_12: IWQETABZKTJU · pith_short_16: IWQETABZKTJUDODK · pith_short_8: IWQETABZ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IWQETABZKTJUDODK6KXB36NHSL \
  | 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: 45a049803954d341b86af2ae1df9a792cf22e16e32786e246e4b2188ba17a762

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e378e7ba6ebcc79eef4c05764cd2b9fcec280581b2b300e2371ac73b113c41d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T21:39:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9ea6e231382d2104d46f9f91a60f139c3e55f83583408844e43a23ff6826da19"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05425",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}