Pith Number

pith:FT4LFU5A

pith:2017:FT4LFU5AJDEEOWD5FGZ3NRFNIX

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Stein Variational Message Passing for Continuous Graphical Models

Dilin Wang, Qiang Liu, Zhe Zeng

arxiv:1711.07168 v3 · 2017-11-20 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{FT4LFU5AJDEEOWD5FGZ3NRFNIX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:55.141733Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2cf8b2d3a048c847587d29b3b6c4ad45eb9bd8825316b8bdb8a035b6d4af597f

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.07168 · arxiv_version: 1711.07168v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.07168 · pith_short_12: FT4LFU5AJDEE · pith_short_16: FT4LFU5AJDEEOWD5 · pith_short_8: FT4LFU5A

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FT4LFU5AJDEEOWD5FGZ3NRFNIX \
  | 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: 2cf8b2d3a048c847587d29b3b6c4ad45eb9bd8825316b8bdb8a035b6d4af597f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e91a7d974b3c0907a9fd08396c34c0b9097e4023fbeea2aed6a56c6e0f89cf3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-20T06:25:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0d0f4d4efa12df640df5823a08775e45b36c5099b1853456e946a69c351c0c5b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.07168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}