Pith Number

pith:GPDDDPFO

pith:2017:GPDDDPFO7HWF2YOOBWAAAXEM2T

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Variational Gaussian Approximation for Poisson Data

Bangti Jin, Chen Zhang, Kazufumi Ito, Simon Arridge

arxiv:1709.05885 v1 · 2017-09-18 · math.NA · stat.CO · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{GPDDDPFO7HWF2YOOBWAAAXEM2T}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:33.372818Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

33c631bcaef9ec5d61ce0d80005c8cd4c9a07f78199a5286978a7d8310100430

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05885 · arxiv_version: 1709.05885v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05885 · pith_short_12: GPDDDPFO7HWF · pith_short_16: GPDDDPFO7HWF2YOO · pith_short_8: GPDDDPFO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GPDDDPFO7HWF2YOOBWAAAXEM2T \
  | 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: 33c631bcaef9ec5d61ce0d80005c8cd4c9a07f78199a5286978a7d8310100430

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b37f55f9d1ef309971643ec1ceffab38c9892aa4d884a8030290b86c065e50c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.NA",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-18T12:12:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "862d5e00ac9ed52fe644f4cce452c778c9a1a25b1429c4b6a2822af9a00e5eb4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05885",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}