Pith Number

pith:5NILX2DY

pith:2026:5NILX2DYFIFCLT3XHLMVJMBT2N

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Using Variational Inference to Improve the Efficiency of MCMC Algorithms

Pingping Yin, Xiyun Jiao

arxiv:2606.29205 v1 · 2026-06-28 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5NILX2DYFIFCLT3XHLMVJMBT2N}

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4 Citations 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	2026-06-30T01:17:57.114399Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb50bbe8782a0a25cf773ad954b033d348122ca6849b9d70829fc1432f7e37b4

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.29205 · arxiv_version: 2606.29205v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.29205 · pith_short_12: 5NILX2DYFIFC · pith_short_16: 5NILX2DYFIFCLT3X · pith_short_8: 5NILX2DY

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/5NILX2DYFIFCLT3XHLMVJMBT2N \
  | 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: eb50bbe8782a0a25cf773ad954b033d348122ca6849b9d70829fc1432f7e37b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b20a899699e225c7790c1aa715d1f171d1ee0f9a068c126edf89d7602efda519",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-28T05:11:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a83f63ade94ad90a3d2fcfe7ebfc46335bddb248a6002492193b03e81eb24a13"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.29205",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}