Pith Number

pith:FUWHNVRF

pith:2018:FUWHNVRFBZ4PSQLXP76PCXN5GJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Bayesian Conjugate Gradient Method

Chris Oates, Ilse Ipsen, Jon Cockayne, Mark Girolami

arxiv:1801.05242 v3 · 2018-01-16 · stat.ME · cs.NA · math.NA · math.ST · stat.TH

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FUWHNVRFBZ4PSQLXP76PCXN5GJ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:14.666347Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2d2c76d6250e78f941777ffcf15dbd327fc6c2e98c601c801f7bd2e0a550260e

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.05242 · arxiv_version: 1801.05242v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.05242 · pith_short_12: FUWHNVRFBZ4P · pith_short_16: FUWHNVRFBZ4PSQLX · pith_short_8: FUWHNVRF

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/FUWHNVRFBZ4PSQLXP76PCXN5GJ \
  | 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: 2d2c76d6250e78f941777ffcf15dbd327fc6c2e98c601c801f7bd2e0a550260e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f82e2d97d5a02334c19a2da441635efc5e572b5dbeb1fa0da3e36910d73454df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NA",
      "math.NA",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-16T13:18:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cecd5d79af1cb61546bc1ff77c28a3b0635ddcdd275ef03d35206d55d574630"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.05242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}