Pith Number

pith:2VIGOUMK

pith:2016:2VIGOUMKUSQV36STXSANTXULMS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Robust Variational Inference

Dmitry Vetrov, Kirill Struminsky, Michael Figurnov

arxiv:1611.09226 v1 · 2016-11-28 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2VIGOUMKUSQV36STXSANTXULMS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:55:54.096600Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d55067518aa4a15dfa53bc80d9de8b64a471462b9a8f0219cd51ef4640caf60d

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.09226 · arxiv_version: 1611.09226v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.09226 · pith_short_12: 2VIGOUMKUSQV · pith_short_16: 2VIGOUMKUSQV36ST · pith_short_8: 2VIGOUMK

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/2VIGOUMKUSQV36STXSANTXULMS \
  | 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: d55067518aa4a15dfa53bc80d9de8b64a471462b9a8f0219cd51ef4640caf60d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9dee36032e8906807faccb65c6565279d160094f0612790146b29d73072302da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-28T16:28:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31a407d05eb0a692e064bf32232fb2ce8cfffef3a6c3034b403a440c38de69d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.09226",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}