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pith:KDWGI2JI

pith:2019:KDWGI2JIF6B46DBFXNLAHPFF5C

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Variational f-divergence Minimization

David Barber, Mingtian Zhang, Raza Habib, Thomas Bird, Tianlin Xu

arxiv:1907.11891 v2 · 2019-07-27 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:48:57.477528Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50ec6469282f83cf0c25bb5603bca5e8b16cac8a53bd54047526ec16824851b6

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.11891 · arxiv_version: 1907.11891v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.11891 · pith_short_12: KDWGI2JIF6B4 · pith_short_16: KDWGI2JIF6B46DBF · pith_short_8: KDWGI2JI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KDWGI2JIF6B46DBFXNLAHPFF5C \
  | 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: 50ec6469282f83cf0c25bb5603bca5e8b16cac8a53bd54047526ec16824851b6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23a0aa2ea3fb50229260175a9ec34dd455400c204b58c4f48e0831c188b929c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-27T10:32:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "53a4bac94c5ad6b18c8eb9f765f88ff7e5b20e7ef6c946b6a981078af5d40dd0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.11891",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}