Pith Number

pith:66TJVC4W

pith:2023:66TJVC4WI255NOSBWVGPQG3AU2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Particle Mean Field Variational Bayes

Minh-Ngoc Tran, Paco Tseng, Robert Kohn

arxiv:2303.13930 v2 · 2023-03-24 · stat.CO · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{66TJVC4WI255NOSBWVGPQG3AU2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T06:11:03.848737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f7a69a8b9646bbd6ba41b54cf81b60a6ac7450f615753eb8fcc86f4253029992

Aliases

arxiv: 2303.13930 · arxiv_version: 2303.13930v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.13930 · pith_short_12: 66TJVC4WI255 · pith_short_16: 66TJVC4WI255NOSB · pith_short_8: 66TJVC4W

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/66TJVC4WI255NOSBWVGPQG3AU2 \
  | 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: f7a69a8b9646bbd6ba41b54cf81b60a6ac7450f615753eb8fcc86f4253029992

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eda9bab45e51b28dc018f76eee9ca381601a301bcba5b9dc3f30796782567b1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2023-03-24T11:38:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66411bfb264b9e5dd1085937a08e181f4791307eefaa4b08d81ac046272e501a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2303.13930",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}