Pith Number

pith:ANWJ7FGD

pith:2017:ANWJ7FGDQRFCTDR6VR2HV3B2FO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Covariances, Robustness, and Variational Bayes

Michael I. Jordan, Ryan Giordano, Tamara Broderick

arxiv:1709.02536 v3 · 2017-09-08 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ANWJ7FGDQRFCTDR6VR2HV3B2FO}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:03:00.268506Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

036c9f94c3844a298e3eac747aec3a2b8fc7bc0935af6538373447a551161e18

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02536 · arxiv_version: 1709.02536v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02536 · pith_short_12: ANWJ7FGDQRFC · pith_short_16: ANWJ7FGDQRFCTDR6 · pith_short_8: ANWJ7FGD

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/ANWJ7FGDQRFCTDR6VR2HV3B2FO \
  | 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: 036c9f94c3844a298e3eac747aec3a2b8fc7bc0935af6538373447a551161e18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d07fbfc084ba013dcfd875cfaad0ba794c5908a68a91e1ddf3da0ee05eee0836",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-08T04:45:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ae756c1be97600a40dea7e5663ce1bf6b275def0b3062bf7da7c7a30c5068de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}