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pith:O47I64L6

pith:2017:O47I64L6S4OUGFDQNQD7LQ3MLX

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Can clustering scale sublinearly with its clusters? A variational EM acceleration of GMMs and $k$-means

Dennis Forster, J\"org L\"ucke

arxiv:1711.03431 v2 · 2017-11-09 · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:18:25.560738Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

773e8f717e971d4314706c07f5c36c5dfa95f839c6a97cf003b5da5f322b19b2

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03431 · arxiv_version: 1711.03431v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03431 · pith_short_12: O47I64L6S4OU · pith_short_16: O47I64L6S4OUGFDQ · pith_short_8: O47I64L6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O47I64L6S4OUGFDQNQD7LQ3MLX \
  | 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: 773e8f717e971d4314706c07f5c36c5dfa95f839c6a97cf003b5da5f322b19b2

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13703d0ff06b41a46195fea6542d95b100b3c444b0273b70cca8b42f3770a1f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-09T15:44:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b904a54ff08edd70a1fc540d830ce81eafa59467bf765d02657b5f1fbe4ec213"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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