Pith Number

pith:QYT7NUDN

pith:2018:QYT7NUDNWLOB37MSLCYI6JN42I

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Variance reduction properties of the reparameterization trick

Matias Quiroz, Ming Xu, Robert Kohn, Scott A. Sisson

arxiv:1809.10330 v3 · 2018-09-27 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QYT7NUDNWLOB37MSLCYI6JN42I}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:21.353127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8627f6d06db2dc1dfd9258b08f25bcd206226f4f66e6ccc57aef4638471e88b8

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.10330 · arxiv_version: 1809.10330v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.10330 · pith_short_12: QYT7NUDNWLOB · pith_short_16: QYT7NUDNWLOB37MS · pith_short_8: QYT7NUDN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QYT7NUDNWLOB37MSLCYI6JN42I \
  | 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: 8627f6d06db2dc1dfd9258b08f25bcd206226f4f66e6ccc57aef4638471e88b8

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-27T03:33:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cfefaf20cc4d81dd7b1f40820f3adf477ee2a29f018c8c54c4bf94df8e1e900"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.10330",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}