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pith:L2YMUQXT

pith:2017:L2YMUQXT2XZ6DRARHVO7AVHD52

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REBAR: Low-variance, unbiased gradient estimates for discrete latent variable models

Andriy Mnih, Chris J. Maddison, Dieterich Lawson, George Tucker, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

arxiv:1703.07370 v4 · 2017-03-21 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:21.941396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5eb0ca42f3d5f3e1c4113d5df054e3eeb55a3e73db6d50615d1f46a0fe7424fb

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arxiv: 1703.07370 · arxiv_version: 1703.07370v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07370 · pith_short_12: L2YMUQXT2XZ6 · pith_short_16: L2YMUQXT2XZ6DRAR · pith_short_8: L2YMUQXT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L2YMUQXT2XZ6DRARHVO7AVHD52 \
  | 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: 5eb0ca42f3d5f3e1c4113d5df054e3eeb55a3e73db6d50615d1f46a0fe7424fb

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-21T18:05:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aef5192126a1fe5df37732f61561dee88d2a654eeb04112119a3ff05aa64c86f"
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  }
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