Pith Number

pith:7QRZJY3V

pith:2021:7QRZJY3VEMB5BRTTYXOKRANZR3

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An Introduction to Variational Inference

Ankush Ganguly, Samuel W. F. Earp

arxiv:2108.13083 v3 · 2021-08-30 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{7QRZJY3VEMB5BRTTYXOKRANZR3}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:33:48.995637Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fc2394e3752303d0c673c5dca881b98ed59da8297abce178d03371c6d47f2938

Aliases

arxiv: 2108.13083 · arxiv_version: 2108.13083v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.13083 · pith_short_12: 7QRZJY3VEMB5 · pith_short_16: 7QRZJY3VEMB5BRTT · pith_short_8: 7QRZJY3V

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7QRZJY3VEMB5BRTTYXOKRANZR3 \
  | 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: fc2394e3752303d0c673c5dca881b98ed59da8297abce178d03371c6d47f2938

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e3a8de99db6315501a698b8d8567558ebda7f39fd294b5dd253a0e4d4b17386",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-30T09:40:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aaba135091bc2049f9e5588edc45c45aeebc74970d3caad0d27fffa1da688aca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2108.13083",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}