Pith Number

pith:R2MOPTWN

pith:2018:R2MOPTWN6RE3VQX2DS4AR6VANK

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A weight-bounded importance sampling method for variance reduction

Jinglai Li, Linjun Lu, Tengchao Yu

arxiv:1811.09436 v2 · 2018-11-23 · stat.CO

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\pithnumber{R2MOPTWN6RE3VQX2DS4AR6VANK}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:52:51.508742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e98e7cecdf449bac2fa1cb808faa06a86cc14aecce17cdabb404f62ac4a88f6

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.09436 · arxiv_version: 1811.09436v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.09436 · pith_short_12: R2MOPTWN6RE3 · pith_short_16: R2MOPTWN6RE3VQX2 · pith_short_8: R2MOPTWN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R2MOPTWN6RE3VQX2DS4AR6VANK \
  | 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: 8e98e7cecdf449bac2fa1cb808faa06a86cc14aecce17cdabb404f62ac4a88f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d699b0421dca7256e4a5b4d784c5a8fcf3d96117bb61d8b69b38fcceb9775861",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-23T11:36:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3c0f0c639ee639f84521a971cb550db013c7697a8b2fda0ff0d4f20e9b0b6121"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.09436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}