Pith Number

pith:2MPYLEQE

pith:2004:2MPYLEQE4TEDAWUHYGVCJBYOU7

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Improving Asymptotic Variance of MCMC Estimators: Non-reversible Chains are Better

Radford M. Neal

arxiv:math/0407281 v1 · 2004-07-15 · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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3 papers in Pith

True Self-Avoiding Walk for Accelerating Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Integration

Optimizing Irreversible Perturbations of the Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm

Adaptive tuning of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:01:54.579267Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d31f859204e4c8305a87c1aa24870ea7d8d1e6de3309000190e840405cf737e6

Aliases

arxiv: math/0407281 · arxiv_version: math/0407281v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.math/0407281 · pith_short_12: 2MPYLEQE4TED · pith_short_16: 2MPYLEQE4TEDAWUH · pith_short_8: 2MPYLEQE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2MPYLEQE4TEDAWUHYGVCJBYOU7 \
  | 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: d31f859204e4c8305a87c1aa24870ea7d8d1e6de3309000190e840405cf737e6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "edd7923eb4e4b6bde983d9500acfe38a279d8ba3f8db2eeeb1a245d86c724c23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2004-07-15T19:44:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9518e2d0b801aa0f7ff1ed3c2b471b8474030a935a8de808164d77f20b9bc273"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "math/0407281",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}