Pith Number

pith:SVZSZUZC

pith:2018:SVZSZUZCUE5CA6XXCRGGX53HXV

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Doubly Reparameterized Gradient Estimators for Monte Carlo Objectives

Chris J. Maddison, Dieterich Lawson, George Tucker, Shixiang Gu

arxiv:1810.04152 v2 · 2018-10-09 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SVZSZUZCUE5CA6XXCRGGX53HXV}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:29.549571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95732cd322a13a207af7144c6bf767bd735876644b00a883ad0f154123170d45

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.04152 · arxiv_version: 1810.04152v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.04152 · pith_short_12: SVZSZUZCUE5C · pith_short_16: SVZSZUZCUE5CA6XX · pith_short_8: SVZSZUZC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SVZSZUZCUE5CA6XXCRGGX53HXV \
  | 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: 95732cd322a13a207af7144c6bf767bd735876644b00a883ad0f154123170d45

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1e0f3df25448716f1c470e3906202cb73c2eada79524da188029d2432f36c9cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-09T17:46:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "050fc8bf60ca4b7e803ce5c4c7e55eedd5c1b5ca17eaa06a547f7d6af042c274"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.04152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}