Pith Number

pith:7WG3AJWI

pith:2012:7WG3AJWISBMC3YU5T4OKJIFOKB

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Importance Sampling via Variational Optimization

Dan Geiger, Ydo Wexler

arxiv:1206.5285 v1 · 2012-06-20 · stat.CO · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7WG3AJWISBMC3YU5T4OKJIFOKB}

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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	2026-05-18T03:52:40.555260Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd8db026c890582de29d9f1ca4a0ae5056b071bef84d0a655f603f142931669b

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.5285 · arxiv_version: 1206.5285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.5285 · pith_short_12: 7WG3AJWISBMC · pith_short_16: 7WG3AJWISBMC3YU5 · pith_short_8: 7WG3AJWI

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/7WG3AJWISBMC3YU5T4OKJIFOKB \
  | 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: fd8db026c890582de29d9f1ca4a0ae5056b071bef84d0a655f603f142931669b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "88fea6cba6b9324ee1729b5e1ea0bbbfaaadbb77b3499de4b62cd5b182280c31",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-20T15:15:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1638602445b1979f0c80cd0687441a50ad3499163735196fcd1b58f2653cb6c8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.5285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}