Pith Number

pith:MKM64LCZ

pith:2021:MKM64LCZA5CZVCFAA4MVZD5SSH

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Empirical Evaluation of Biased Methods for Alpha Divergence Minimization

Justin Domke, Tomas Geffner

arxiv:2105.06587 v1 · 2021-05-13 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{MKM64LCZA5CZVCFAA4MVZD5SSH}

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:40:11.948505Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6299ee2c5907459a88a007195c8fb291ebc4d37dd87fc8af1044359a1ec747fa

Aliases

arxiv: 2105.06587 · arxiv_version: 2105.06587v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.06587 · pith_short_12: MKM64LCZA5CZ · pith_short_16: MKM64LCZA5CZVCFA · pith_short_8: MKM64LCZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MKM64LCZA5CZVCFAA4MVZD5SSH \
  | 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: 6299ee2c5907459a88a007195c8fb291ebc4d37dd87fc8af1044359a1ec747fa

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-05-13T23:16:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e1fc2db474a8d591e2d52085cad12e029cb4b2e738c33323b1f499584c6c547a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}