Pith Number

pith:4NMROOHN

pith:2023:4NMROOHNNJ5PTI7FPX5ETTQYL2

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Natural Gradient Hybrid Variational Inference with Application to Deep Mixed Models

Michael Stanley Smith, Ruben Loaiza-Maya, Weiben Zhang, Worapree Maneesoonthorn

arxiv:2302.13536 v2 · 2023-02-27 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{4NMROOHNNJ5PTI7FPX5ETTQYL2}

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:48:10.204856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3591738ed6a7af9a3e57dfa49ce185ebddcdc96a8e5035756384aadfb489d98

Aliases

arxiv: 2302.13536 · arxiv_version: 2302.13536v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.13536 · pith_short_12: 4NMROOHNNJ5P · pith_short_16: 4NMROOHNNJ5PTI7F · pith_short_8: 4NMROOHN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4NMROOHNNJ5PTI7FPX5ETTQYL2 \
  | 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: e3591738ed6a7af9a3e57dfa49ce185ebddcdc96a8e5035756384aadfb489d98

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2023-02-27T06:24:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa8155f0b1e3d77d1823e6e67cf4c3db5d81a711971661d6064d658c59481c61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2302.13536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}