Pith Number

pith:3VV5AOMW

pith:2019:3VV5AOMWXMJ6VTEK367A6S7AFY

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Variationally Inferred Sampling Through a Refined Bound for Probabilistic Programs

David Rios Insua, Victor Gallego

arxiv:1908.09744 v4 · 2019-08-26 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VV5AOMWXMJ6VTEK367A6S7AFY}

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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	2026-07-05T00:43:03.358493Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd6bd03996bb13eacc8adfbe0f4be02e26cdd2bf3dba15f3e4ae73b1e40baaf1

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.09744 · arxiv_version: 1908.09744v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.09744 · pith_short_12: 3VV5AOMWXMJ6 · pith_short_16: 3VV5AOMWXMJ6VTEK · pith_short_8: 3VV5AOMW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3VV5AOMWXMJ6VTEK367A6S7AFY \
  | 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: dd6bd03996bb13eacc8adfbe0f4be02e26cdd2bf3dba15f3e4ae73b1e40baaf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e156fd3375759d68063af449d6f63fa333914b790387f785f656f5e1aaf9288",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-26T15:38:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "27c8425615ba54cef8d2249633c5b87fc5bd0964b39888726c92457066edf324"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.09744",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}