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pith:2017:UTTGU3KIYM6JKD6ALUV7A7CX74

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Stochastic Gradient Descent as Approximate Bayesian Inference

David M. Blei, Matthew D. Hoffman, Stephan Mandt

arxiv:1704.04289 v2 · 2017-04-13 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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arxiv: 1704.04289 · arxiv_version: 1704.04289v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04289 · pith_short_12: UTTGU3KIYM6J · pith_short_16: UTTGU3KIYM6JKD6A · pith_short_8: UTTGU3KI

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UTTGU3KIYM6JKD6ALUV7A7CX74 \
  | 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())"
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