Pith Number

pith:7M2ELXHI

pith:2016:7M2ELXHIOSCSD2NQVTB7VKJWXC

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A Variational Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Algorithms

David M. Blei, Matthew D. Hoffman, Stephan Mandt

arxiv:1602.02666 v1 · 2016-02-08 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7M2ELXHIOSCSD2NQVTB7VKJWXC}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:44.369723Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fb3445dce8748521e9b0acc3faa936b8a743c2743f54199e9705eaf76f76cb5f

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.02666 · arxiv_version: 1602.02666v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.02666 · pith_short_12: 7M2ELXHIOSCS · pith_short_16: 7M2ELXHIOSCSD2NQ · pith_short_8: 7M2ELXHI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7M2ELXHIOSCSD2NQVTB7VKJWXC \
  | 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: fb3445dce8748521e9b0acc3faa936b8a743c2743f54199e9705eaf76f76cb5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e5d1ff9f1c17329974b49881674a11f2be2c6972cb4f2135bbc5cb46e1cb82ea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-08T17:46:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bfae1f86f06222ee02bedc41882b547ea2f1ac8da42a69fcd1358944d180da19"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}