Pith Number

pith:DPQATX4V

pith:2015:DPQATX4VSLU4O7WQ3BZN7SR7RO

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Private Posterior distributions from Variational approximations

Aleksandra B. Slavkovi\'c, Dan Kifer, Vishesh Karwa

arxiv:1511.07896 v1 · 2015-11-24 · stat.ML · cs.CR · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DPQATX4VSLU4O7WQ3BZN7SR7RO}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:26:02.296575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1be009df9592e9c77ed0d872dfca3f8ba7dc7d13fcd4d1bc5a38578c329f327f

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.07896 · arxiv_version: 1511.07896v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.07896 · pith_short_12: DPQATX4VSLU4 · pith_short_16: DPQATX4VSLU4O7WQ · pith_short_8: DPQATX4V

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/DPQATX4VSLU4O7WQ3BZN7SR7RO \
  | 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: 1be009df9592e9c77ed0d872dfca3f8ba7dc7d13fcd4d1bc5a38578c329f327f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31acc6f3d11f63e7f5368f6284fc22e39b0721441473ba5d1469d82edb123379",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-24T21:49:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e14dcb05ad65b807bf4f1c98ccbd89366d618b0e2a62fefa5e628c8edc9022bc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.07896",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}