Pith Number

pith:2NEWIVQW

pith:2017:2NEWIVQWGU5765PATLQ2KKMP3U

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Theoretical and Computational Guarantees of Mean Field Variational Inference for Community Detection

Anderson Y. Zhang, Harrison H. Zhou

arxiv:1710.11268 v3 · 2017-10-30 · math.ST · cs.SI · stat.ML · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2NEWIVQWGU5765PATLQ2KKMP3U}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:22.366427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d349645616353bff75e09ae1a5298fdd080cecc4ce0ff7a00f84ea7adf8d1cec

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.11268 · arxiv_version: 1710.11268v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.11268 · pith_short_12: 2NEWIVQWGU57 · pith_short_16: 2NEWIVQWGU5765PA · pith_short_8: 2NEWIVQW

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/2NEWIVQWGU5765PATLQ2KKMP3U \
  | 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: d349645616353bff75e09ae1a5298fdd080cecc4ce0ff7a00f84ea7adf8d1cec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35063bb4ea7293b189cf413720864e348fcabdb8dfe720a69230bdc77a7909f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI",
      "stat.ML",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-30T23:29:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b8b7f2261059dd926546a900c17a97d90dc948cca6ffb377ca0f22685eef493c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.11268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}