Pith Number

pith:BW2YQO7E

pith:2013:BW2YQO7E3WJ5BXZIQOVS3KB3GJ

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Fast Dual Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate LGMs

Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Matthias Seeger, Michael P. Friedlander, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

arxiv:1306.1052 v1 · 2013-06-05 · stat.ML · math.OC · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BW2YQO7E3WJ5BXZIQOVS3KB3GJ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:21:44.518742Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0db5883be4dd93d0df2883ab2da83b325b26e9c3cb55177706fc41c9d8586faf

Aliases

arxiv: 1306.1052 · arxiv_version: 1306.1052v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1306.1052 · pith_short_12: BW2YQO7E3WJ5 · pith_short_16: BW2YQO7E3WJ5BXZI · pith_short_8: BW2YQO7E

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/BW2YQO7E3WJ5BXZIQOVS3KB3GJ \
  | 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: 0db5883be4dd93d0df2883ab2da83b325b26e9c3cb55177706fc41c9d8586faf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c4c84a70960122e4169e4215442375a5cb2f3a086cdc451dd63c10500490303",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2013-06-05T10:45:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "163dac3b0eeb2c8589b2f5b6da3841f0ca825464f1012f7b7ee250e88fdf2311"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1306.1052",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}