Pith Number

pith:7LF6ZEI2

pith:2015:7LF6ZEI2GXRR6CLWAAJDUDSUTV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stochastic Annealing for Variational Inference

Aonan Zhang, John Paisley, San Gultekin

arxiv:1505.06723 v1 · 2015-05-25 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7LF6ZEI2GXRR6CLWAAJDUDSUTV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T02:03:44.173962Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

facbec911a35e31f097600123a0e549d40a827ca7d08f469a37ec9d0eef6db0c

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.06723 · arxiv_version: 1505.06723v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.06723 · pith_short_12: 7LF6ZEI2GXRR · pith_short_16: 7LF6ZEI2GXRR6CLW · pith_short_8: 7LF6ZEI2

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7LF6ZEI2GXRR6CLWAAJDUDSUTV \
  | 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: facbec911a35e31f097600123a0e549d40a827ca7d08f469a37ec9d0eef6db0c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4c3838a434715e1b2ebeaf8ee5bac471ce24a4204ea5f48df0df10e039da165b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-25T19:44:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97574210d699a97c4394f3116fdbb35be3c02b4f627de79b8814543dd2b1cf79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.06723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}