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pith:2017:527HAPXDV4O5DV6M2LCNKOZ67G
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Gauging Variational Inference

Jinwoo Shin, Michael Chertkov, Sungsoo Ahn

arxiv:1703.01056 v5 · 2017-03-03 · stat.ML

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Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eebe703ee3af1dd1d7ccd2c4d53b3ef999e5b7cce9bb10e7ad63b1f4d868b84d

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arxiv: 1703.01056 · arxiv_version: 1703.01056v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.01056 · pith_short_12: 527HAPXDV4O5 · pith_short_16: 527HAPXDV4O5DV6M · pith_short_8: 527HAPXD
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/527HAPXDV4O5DV6M2LCNKOZ67G \
  | 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: eebe703ee3af1dd1d7ccd2c4d53b3ef999e5b7cce9bb10e7ad63b1f4d868b84d
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-03T06:54:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c23c77977ff62ac24ec5d6f2a9eddc2c1cb6f1534df04ea42257d58f79fa2820"
  },
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  }
}