Pith Number

pith:USOC4LQJ

pith:2015:USOC4LQJ7BMXE4PJ5PRJDIV2AA

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`local' vs. `global' parameters -- breaking the gaussian complexity barrier

Shahar Mendelson

arxiv:1504.02191 v1 · 2015-04-09 · stat.ML · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{USOC4LQJ7BMXE4PJ5PRJDIV2AA}

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On Least Squares Estimation under Heteroscedastic and Heavy-Tailed Errors

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:19:15.804446Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a49c2e2e09f8597271e9ebe291a2ba002906f3d283bc8ba4ba7befe3fc9906c7

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.02191 · arxiv_version: 1504.02191v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.02191 · pith_short_12: USOC4LQJ7BMX · pith_short_16: USOC4LQJ7BMXE4PJ · pith_short_8: USOC4LQJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/USOC4LQJ7BMXE4PJ5PRJDIV2AA \
  | 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: a49c2e2e09f8597271e9ebe291a2ba002906f3d283bc8ba4ba7befe3fc9906c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1f9a3be049344214f6d6042a3792675864842d1c4ca1a14eda52c5b31dead43f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-09T04:54:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df78bcf79dc4f25c9bfaea2feba50bbc8f4c673699cce5ee36e35e4ae62b963a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.02191",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}