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pith:LPSDMFBG

pith:2023:LPSDMFBGJEQ3XUA45H4BIEUCW2

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U-Statistics for Importance-Weighted Variational Inference

Daniel Sheldon, Javier Burroni, Justin Domke, Kenta Takatsu

arxiv:2302.13918 v1 · 2023-02-27 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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SGD for Variational Inference: Tackling Unbounded Variance via Preconditioning and Dynamic Batching

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:45:52.510677Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

5be43614264921bbd01ce9f8141282b6a0eb26adaeca14677b8561aad9d34aec

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arxiv: 2302.13918 · arxiv_version: 2302.13918v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.13918 · pith_short_12: LPSDMFBGJEQ3 · pith_short_16: LPSDMFBGJEQ3XUA4 · pith_short_8: LPSDMFBG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LPSDMFBGJEQ3XUA45H4BIEUCW2 \
  | 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: 5be43614264921bbd01ce9f8141282b6a0eb26adaeca14677b8561aad9d34aec

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-27T16:08:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e32696f70574711c445a6e891bd3e093c80d13687d858717b5fb0684ea6a9c7"
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