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pith:NLLQQYPT

pith:2018:NLLQQYPTO4ZDUQI7E2NUPGNSN2

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Metropolis-Hastings view on variational inference and adversarial training

Dmitry Vetrov, Evgenii Egorov, Kirill Neklyudov, Pavel Shvechikov

arxiv:1810.07151 v2 · 2018-10-16 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:43:50.685599Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ad70861f377323a411f269b4799b26eadd3d74bfdac85f46382f10e70032213

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.07151 · arxiv_version: 1810.07151v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.07151 · pith_short_12: NLLQQYPTO4ZD · pith_short_16: NLLQQYPTO4ZDUQI7 · pith_short_8: NLLQQYPT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NLLQQYPTO4ZDUQI7E2NUPGNSN2 \
  | 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: 6ad70861f377323a411f269b4799b26eadd3d74bfdac85f46382f10e70032213

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2018-10-16T17:26:24Z",
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