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pith:SQQ52R47

pith:2025:SQQ52R47TCU4YITDWTVPOEPKQU

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A Revisit to Rate-distortion Theory via Optimal Weak Transport

Jia Wang, Jiayang Gao, Jiayang Zou, Luyao Fan

arxiv:2501.09362 v3 · 2025-01-16 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Rate-distortion Theory with Lower Semi-continuous Distortion on Noncompact Alphabets

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:04:41.897211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

9421dd479f98a9cc2263b4eaf711ea852de97bbc0975ce42a8016a53cce29fc2

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arxiv: 2501.09362 · arxiv_version: 2501.09362v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.09362 · pith_short_12: SQQ52R47TCU4 · pith_short_16: SQQ52R47TCU4YITD · pith_short_8: SQQ52R47

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SQQ52R47TCU4YITDWTVPOEPKQU \
  | 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: 9421dd479f98a9cc2263b4eaf711ea852de97bbc0975ce42a8016a53cce29fc2

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