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pith:7DCH7JVM

pith:2021:7DCH7JVMPSPWTEVV2NTVYW3R3B

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Variational Causal Networks: Approximate Bayesian Inference over Causal Structures

Alexandre Lacoste, Anirudh Goyal, Jonas Rothfuss, Nino Scherrer, Stefan Bauer, Yashas Annadani, Yoshua Bengio

arxiv:2106.07635 v1 · 2021-06-14 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:49:06.991177Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

f8c47fa6ac7c9f6992b5d3675c5b71d8556625f15c484b29bec62047824f3eee

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arxiv: 2106.07635 · arxiv_version: 2106.07635v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.07635 · pith_short_12: 7DCH7JVMPSPW · pith_short_16: 7DCH7JVMPSPWTEVV · pith_short_8: 7DCH7JVM

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7DCH7JVMPSPWTEVV2NTVYW3R3B \
  | 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: f8c47fa6ac7c9f6992b5d3675c5b71d8556625f15c484b29bec62047824f3eee

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-06-14T17:52:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7835bb436a806bcb3d3f691e09e44572b2715a4a231ea95dbf7cd0ac4759b779"
  },
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  }
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