Pith Number

pith:2W4VINV4

pith:2014:2W4VINV4QBFJIA55U5WABTFFEN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sublinear-Time Approximate MCMC Transitions for Probabilistic Programs

Vikash Mansinghka, Yutian Chen, Zoubin Ghahramani

arxiv:1411.1690 v2 · 2014-11-06 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2W4VINV4QBFJIA55U5WABTFFEN}

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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	2026-05-18T02:25:19.774747Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5b95436bc804a9403bda76c00cca52344062b8d3801561926759ac63534972f

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1690 · arxiv_version: 1411.1690v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1690 · pith_short_12: 2W4VINV4QBFJ · pith_short_16: 2W4VINV4QBFJIA55 · pith_short_8: 2W4VINV4

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/2W4VINV4QBFJIA55U5WABTFFEN \
  | 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: d5b95436bc804a9403bda76c00cca52344062b8d3801561926759ac63534972f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbbfb23710afbb9074fddb7b40134f1bd11d3a9bbad29b0020a97e06082d1019",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-06T18:32:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5abb7b6ec5c466e3e4f39c3c3d295448ab3cedf59d5d7f50ea2a47f5abc4b73f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1690",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}