Pith Number

pith:W3KCLDHI

pith:2018:W3KCLDHI6KQJYXHJQ3JMXEQPNB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Diffusion approximations and control variates for MCMC

Alain Durmus, Anand Radhakrishnan, Eric Moulines, Nicolas Brosse, Sean Meyn

arxiv:1808.01665 v2 · 2018-08-05 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W3KCLDHI6KQJYXHJQ3JMXEQPNB}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:41:17.922094Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6d4258ce8f2a09c5ce986d2cb920f686eb1e1f190fce3db0846064c567c52a4

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.01665 · arxiv_version: 1808.01665v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.01665 · pith_short_12: W3KCLDHI6KQJ · pith_short_16: W3KCLDHI6KQJYXHJ · pith_short_8: W3KCLDHI

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W3KCLDHI6KQJYXHJQ3JMXEQPNB \
  | 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: b6d4258ce8f2a09c5ce986d2cb920f686eb1e1f190fce3db0846064c567c52a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7505024aace694a99500d1104e852f157e1a110e8ca434ccba3d0af051e759fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-05T18:16:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48ddc744c82fb2223facd668a6db85764aa19d86380256b0649aabab477fc50f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.01665",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}