Pith Number

pith:RONGUT73

pith:2026:RONGUT73LSDF2YTVFQSJAZ6CTR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proximal-IMH: Proximal Posterior Proposals for Independent Metropolis-Hastings with Approximate Operators

George Biros, Youguang Chen

arxiv:2602.21426 v2 · 2026-02-24 · cs.LG · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RONGUT73LSDF2YTVFQSJAZ6CTR}

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:04:26.560455Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b9a6a4ffb5c865d62752c249067c29c6dd3ae40a752eca98b66129bff2deaa7

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.21426 · arxiv_version: 2602.21426v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.21426 · pith_short_12: RONGUT73LSDF · pith_short_16: RONGUT73LSDF2YTV · pith_short_8: RONGUT73

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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/RONGUT73LSDF2YTVFQSJAZ6CTR \
  | 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: 8b9a6a4ffb5c865d62752c249067c29c6dd3ae40a752eca98b66129bff2deaa7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8db3ada7f2426d3484c8fb7c92e6b5445fbf2f931e1da3131cd21e383e9a35ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-24T22:58:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40de7e753d463bb5085d1997c2bbab971b4eb56f7b91617b6f38a111a2ec6995"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.21426",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}