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pith:XOCHYLDH

pith:2026:XOCHYLDH6CVNLFY6YXDB7IBSHR

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Universal priors: solving empirical Bayes via Bayesian inference and pretraining

Anzo Teh, Nick Cannella, Yanjun Han, Yury Polyanskiy

arxiv:2602.15136 v2 · 2026-02-16 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-06-23T03:13:54.487947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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bb847c2c67f0aad5971ec5c61fa0323c5219117cf75e13c9ea1fe1ec52d12f0e

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arxiv: 2602.15136 · arxiv_version: 2602.15136v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.15136 · pith_short_12: XOCHYLDH6CVN · pith_short_16: XOCHYLDH6CVNLFY6 · pith_short_8: XOCHYLDH

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XOCHYLDH6CVNLFY6YXDB7IBSHR \
  | 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: bb847c2c67f0aad5971ec5c61fa0323c5219117cf75e13c9ea1fe1ec52d12f0e

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