Pith Number

pith:G4IZ4NAR

pith:2018:G4IZ4NARMH5LGJLJM7HSB2MTIY

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Variational Implicit Processes

Chao Ma, Jos\'e Miguel Hern\'andez-Lobato, Yingzhen Li

arxiv:1806.02390 v2 · 2018-06-06 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G4IZ4NARMH5LGJLJM7HSB2MTIY}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:44:59.478380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

37119e341161fab3256967cf20e9934627b12af6fff6e06b2ce092fc17ef8b99

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.02390 · arxiv_version: 1806.02390v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.02390 · pith_short_12: G4IZ4NARMH5L · pith_short_16: G4IZ4NARMH5LGJLJ · pith_short_8: G4IZ4NAR

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/G4IZ4NARMH5LGJLJM7HSB2MTIY \
  | 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: 37119e341161fab3256967cf20e9934627b12af6fff6e06b2ce092fc17ef8b99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8c4303bc5b8b8a5077262683f2b1269ff599f3cd41cb04637459e23f9fa14b5a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-06T19:13:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d62d0ecfb4580b73224f075dd91f55c9ef62f82ff1b488cfccdaa23b9caa4be"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.02390",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}