Pith Number

pith:ODMT4KHN

pith:2017:ODMT4KHNM2JKWE4ZOJQLC7FUXT

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Pseudo-extended Markov chain Monte Carlo

Christopher Nemeth, Fredrik Lindsten, James Hensman, Maurizio Filippone

arxiv:1708.05239 v3 · 2017-08-17 · stat.ME · stat.CO · stat.ML

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Revisiting the balance heuristic for estimating normalising constants

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:15:32.819494Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

70d93e28ed6692ab13997260b17cb4bccd9daf8c35052911df43cd4e50cc6a95

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.05239 · arxiv_version: 1708.05239v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.05239 · pith_short_12: ODMT4KHNM2JK · pith_short_16: ODMT4KHNM2JKWE4Z · pith_short_8: ODMT4KHN

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ODMT4KHNM2JKWE4ZOJQLC7FUXT \
  | 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: 70d93e28ed6692ab13997260b17cb4bccd9daf8c35052911df43cd4e50cc6a95

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a214526ed420195cb6698e796a355cb3015e49366dfe63ed3d5a53d0f85605f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-17T12:45:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a11df75551285844aafce073e54ac0ba684a89bd3fce330da1ccc7e2c600a59"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.05239",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}