Pith Number

pith:FWZ5VD4Z

pith:2017:FWZ5VD4ZIQV5IRTHOBYOT2RNA7

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Advances in Variational Inference

Cheng Zhang, Hedvig Kjellstrom, Judith Butepage, Stephan Mandt

arxiv:1711.05597 v3 · 2017-11-15 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FWZ5VD4ZIQV5IRTHOBYOT2RNA7}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:35.986127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2db3da8f99442bd446677070e9ea2d07d750644ef2ac383b8fc9e9180b9bd330

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.05597 · arxiv_version: 1711.05597v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.05597 · pith_short_12: FWZ5VD4ZIQV5 · pith_short_16: FWZ5VD4ZIQV5IRTH · pith_short_8: FWZ5VD4Z

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/FWZ5VD4ZIQV5IRTHOBYOT2RNA7 \
  | 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: 2db3da8f99442bd446677070e9ea2d07d750644ef2ac383b8fc9e9180b9bd330

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "306100e7c955a064f78e1e8e4993ed43aad2bf15f7bd2b7b40118a06aa6e1e8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-15T14:46:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8563ff78dab6427f5f8663659c5d9aceebb9a173b3cb2e1dc3d00b615bdf13ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.05597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}