Pith Number

pith:B5FK4C4O

pith:2018:B5FK4C4OPOIJ4FF5W4G2U2MB5D

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Boosting Black Box Variational Inference

Francesco Locatello, Gideon Dresdner, Gunnar R\"atsch, Isabel Valera, Rajiv Khanna

arxiv:1806.02185 v5 · 2018-06-06 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B5FK4C4OPOIJ4FF5W4G2U2MB5D}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:38.799499Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f4aae0b8e7b909e14bdb70daa6981e8ca635a1da8df78fd508d52ad62afabe2

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.02185 · arxiv_version: 1806.02185v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.02185 · pith_short_12: B5FK4C4OPOIJ · pith_short_16: B5FK4C4OPOIJ4FF5 · pith_short_8: B5FK4C4O

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/B5FK4C4OPOIJ4FF5W4G2U2MB5D \
  | 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: 0f4aae0b8e7b909e14bdb70daa6981e8ca635a1da8df78fd508d52ad62afabe2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e32e2d66d94b64d792a4115549acabbf55be7bee90d74f0ebe3c32b687ef86c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-06T13:53:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac4b94e3a028a8aa72065d23bc11aad3558737575c848f9df149d3de9ec8b3b5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.02185",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}