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pith:2018:Q3J6KQVJ6HXXTPCLCND2V52N43

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SLANG: Fast Structured Covariance Approximations for Bayesian Deep Learning with Natural Gradient

Aaron Mishkin, Didrik Nielsen, Frederik Kunstner, Mark Schmidt, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

arxiv:1811.04504 v2 · 2018-11-11 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:56:29.214485Z
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Canonical hash

86d3e542a9f1ef79bc4b1347aaf74de6e804b373f277d8aa5395158608160744

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arxiv: 1811.04504 · arxiv_version: 1811.04504v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.04504 · pith_short_12: Q3J6KQVJ6HXX · pith_short_16: Q3J6KQVJ6HXXTPCL · pith_short_8: Q3J6KQVJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q3J6KQVJ6HXXTPCLCND2V52N43 \
  | 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: 86d3e542a9f1ef79bc4b1347aaf74de6e804b373f277d8aa5395158608160744

Canonical record JSON

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    "submitted_at": "2018-11-11T23:18:27Z",
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