Pith Number

pith:B2JDHBDN

pith:2015:B2JDHBDN5CMBYV3DIAJULU4JSN

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Variational Bayesian strategies for high-dimensional, stochastic design problems

Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis

arxiv:1507.06759 v2 · 2015-07-24 · stat.CO · math.NA · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B2JDHBDN5CMBYV3DIAJULU4JSN}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:45.773881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e9233846de8981c5763401345d389937e50b3b98c75dd8bf3e0ebc0771fe06d

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.06759 · arxiv_version: 1507.06759v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.06759 · pith_short_12: B2JDHBDN5CMB · pith_short_16: B2JDHBDN5CMBYV3D · pith_short_8: B2JDHBDN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B2JDHBDN5CMBYV3DIAJULU4JSN \
  | 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: 0e9233846de8981c5763401345d389937e50b3b98c75dd8bf3e0ebc0771fe06d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13c7ce19389de16c8196f12f871c9f991731d3c86c9b6bbc64f824befd7b3acb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NA",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-24T07:00:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6171f78946ee098a5def396f2cdd8dd521b7bc8fd176c7d86fb7c83013b5ca85"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.06759",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}