Pith Number

pith:DETP5YIO

pith:2019:DETP5YIOWWSQTVP6UHWEAM5SKX

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When random initializations help: a study of variational inference for community detection

Purnamrita Sarkar, Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee, Y. X. Rachel Wang

arxiv:1905.06661 v2 · 2019-05-16 · math.ST · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{DETP5YIOWWSQTVP6UHWEAM5SKX}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:45:51.475896Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1926fee10eb5a509d5fea1ec4033b255e68ac542ad7c75558744cb056d4ad290

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.06661 · arxiv_version: 1905.06661v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.06661 · pith_short_12: DETP5YIOWWSQ · pith_short_16: DETP5YIOWWSQTVP6 · pith_short_8: DETP5YIO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DETP5YIOWWSQTVP6UHWEAM5SKX \
  | 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: 1926fee10eb5a509d5fea1ec4033b255e68ac542ad7c75558744cb056d4ad290

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5739c91cfd2befa929fd72c04075db8278a5973ac8dff58f841058ee96e41d6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-16T11:18:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae372ca1ff1898c8fefd48d957324349a708238041302a8652d84dca9101e84b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.06661",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}