Pith Number

pith:2ZCQJI4T

pith:2020:2ZCQJI4TR7YMB2CBRHP4LQOLKX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Advances in Black-Box VI: Normalizing Flows, Importance Weighting, and Optimization

Abhinav Agrawal, Daniel Sheldon, Justin Domke

arxiv:2006.10343 v2 · 2020-06-18 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2ZCQJI4TR7YMB2CBRHP4LQOLKX}

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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	2026-07-05T01:45:43.523237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d64504a3938ff0c0e84189dfc5c1cb55dd302d06c2c31b74b898e2fd651ba757

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.10343 · arxiv_version: 2006.10343v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.10343 · pith_short_12: 2ZCQJI4TR7YM · pith_short_16: 2ZCQJI4TR7YMB2CB · pith_short_8: 2ZCQJI4T

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/2ZCQJI4TR7YMB2CBRHP4LQOLKX \
  | 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: d64504a3938ff0c0e84189dfc5c1cb55dd302d06c2c31b74b898e2fd651ba757

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c2f754cc0d3edce280c1face0e593b4cda6e4c55fba98a2bc367aacf61607c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-18T08:08:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c97589b3abcb8a21e49dfab854f02d9abe3980cdb1b5d241d69ec8ca0744af21"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.10343",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}