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pith:2018:VRZ7KJDSXUVEUSTEBP3NCB73YV
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Understanding and Accelerating Particle-Based Variational Inference

Chang Liu, Jingwei Zhuo, Jun Zhu, Lawrence Carin, Pengyu Cheng, Ruiyi Zhang

arxiv:1807.01750 v4 · 2018-07-04 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Canonical hash

ac73f52472bd2a4a4a640bf6d107fbc575483cdc81703073972f982712f8cde4

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arxiv: 1807.01750 · arxiv_version: 1807.01750v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.01750 · pith_short_12: VRZ7KJDSXUVE · pith_short_16: VRZ7KJDSXUVEUSTE · pith_short_8: VRZ7KJDS
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VRZ7KJDSXUVEUSTEBP3NCB73YV \
  | 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: ac73f52472bd2a4a4a640bf6d107fbc575483cdc81703073972f982712f8cde4
Canonical record JSON
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