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pith:PD2SXI22

pith:2020:PD2SXI22BZ7PGIUQXJG45FZT55

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Reintroducing Straight-Through Estimators as Principled Methods for Stochastic Binary Networks

Alexander Shekhovtsov, Viktor Yanush

arxiv:2006.06880 v4 · 2020-06-11 · stat.ML · cs.CV · cs.LG · cs.NE

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:23:36.630570Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

78f52ba35a0e7ef32290ba4dce9733ef713c7e1a984d2d2bb67ca0776173b70e

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arxiv: 2006.06880 · arxiv_version: 2006.06880v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.06880 · pith_short_12: PD2SXI22BZ7P · pith_short_16: PD2SXI22BZ7PGIUQ · pith_short_8: PD2SXI22

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PD2SXI22BZ7PGIUQXJG45FZT55 \
  | 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: 78f52ba35a0e7ef32290ba4dce9733ef713c7e1a984d2d2bb67ca0776173b70e

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-11T23:58:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "afa119e7cc319546d972e009067086eedb65789ddadb1b9ede8b7ceddee06f15"
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