Pith Number

pith:2DCZZUQZ

pith:2018:2DCZZUQZHDZTALQJQRU4GYAJQX

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Simple, Distributed, and Accelerated Probabilistic Programming

Alexey Radul, Christopher Suter, Dave Moore, Dustin Tran, Matthew Hoffman, Matthew Johnson, Rif A. Saurous, Srinivas Vasudevan

arxiv:1811.02091 v2 · 2018-11-05 · stat.ML · cs.LG · cs.PL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2DCZZUQZHDZTALQJQRU4GYAJQX}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:38.022227Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0c59cd21938f3302e098469c3600985d53f3bd4faef4ed564d404c4633227e4

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.02091 · arxiv_version: 1811.02091v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.02091 · pith_short_12: 2DCZZUQZHDZT · pith_short_16: 2DCZZUQZHDZTALQJ · pith_short_8: 2DCZZUQZ

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/2DCZZUQZHDZTALQJQRU4GYAJQX \
  | 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: d0c59cd21938f3302e098469c3600985d53f3bd4faef4ed564d404c4633227e4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e9c11bb26c2d0277d59a07237cb59dd464b162779c15575d9a0c0a16753be46f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.PL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-05T23:53:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7512850959cf2eafab64ba0b8bc3f7fbfe1d62c76b023981447b17c7f2166353"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.02091",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}