{"state_type":"pith_open_graph_state","state_version":"1.0","pith_number":"pith:2020:2ZCQJI4TR7YMB2CBRHP4LQOLKX","merge_version":"pith-open-graph-merge-v1","event_count":2,"valid_event_count":2,"invalid_event_count":0,"equivocation_count":0,"current":{"canonical_record":{"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}},"source_aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"2006.10343","created_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43Z"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"2006.10343v2","created_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43Z"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.2006.10343","created_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"2ZCQJI4TR7YM","created_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"2ZCQJI4TR7YMB2CB","created_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43Z"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"2ZCQJI4T","created_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43Z"}],"graph_snapshots":[{"event_id":"sha256:970ed071399d6bb4d6976086a0f04089ebd0c513052043895860df7019dba00e","target":"graph","created_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"graph_snapshot":{"author_claims":{"count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","strong_count":0},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"integrity":{"available":true,"clean":true,"detectors_run":[],"endpoint":"/pith/2006.10343/integrity.json","findings":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938","summary":{"advisory":0,"by_detector":{},"critical":0,"informational":0}},"paper":{"abstract_excerpt":"Recent research has seen several advances relevant to black-box VI, but the current state of automatic posterior inference is unclear. One such advance is the use of normalizing flows to define flexible posterior densities for deep latent variable models. Another direction is the integration of Monte-Carlo methods to serve two purposes; first, to obtain tighter variational objectives for optimization, and second, to define enriched variational families through sampling. However, both flows and variational Monte-Carlo methods remain relatively unexplored for black-box VI. Moreover, on a pragmat","authors_text":"Abhinav Agrawal, Daniel Sheldon, Justin Domke","cross_cats":["stat.ML"],"headline":"","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","primary_cat":"cs.LG","submitted_at":"2020-06-18T08:08:54Z","title":"Advances in Black-Box VI: Normalizing Flows, Importance Weighting, and Optimization"},"references":{"count":0,"internal_anchors":0,"resolved_work":0,"sample":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2006.10343","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"created_at":null,"id":null,"model_set":{},"one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"pith_extraction_headline":"","strongest_claim":"","weakest_assumption":""}},"verdict_id":null}}],"author_attestations":[],"timestamp_anchors":[],"storage_attestations":[],"citation_signatures":[],"replication_records":[],"corrections":[],"mirror_hints":[],"record_created":{"event_id":"sha256:534c0098af6249cf94c56ce9805f254585220369ada906cd5c8d164806efd642","target":"record","created_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43Z","signer":{"key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","signer_id":"pith.science","signer_type":"pith_registry"},"payload":{"attestation_state":"computed","canonical_record":{"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}},"canonical_sha256":"d64504a3938ff0c0e84189dfc5c1cb55dd302d06c2c31b74b898e2fd651ba757","receipt":{"algorithm":"ed25519","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","canonical_sha256":"d64504a3938ff0c0e84189dfc5c1cb55dd302d06c2c31b74b898e2fd651ba757","first_computed_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43.523237Z","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","kind":"pith_receipt","last_reissued_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43.523237Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54","receipt_version":"0.3","signature_b64":"a/qGXuRGSGKNQ1boetWteSJR490w0mYpGuSbL6uiHjnMTEEQCE7hlISXgPFXtc9LtsBH0bnqNeEWFYfXRHy3Aw==","signature_status":"signed_v1","signed_at":"2026-07-05T01:45:43.523684Z","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes"},"source_id":"2006.10343","source_kind":"arxiv","source_version":2}}},"equivocations":[],"invalid_events":[],"applied_event_ids":["sha256:534c0098af6249cf94c56ce9805f254585220369ada906cd5c8d164806efd642","sha256:970ed071399d6bb4d6976086a0f04089ebd0c513052043895860df7019dba00e"],"state_sha256":"9c8679fed6591f95b282c5d86094b02b3aefce6fc22406f746d709b2081971e4"}