Pith Number

pith:HRQZWUZD

pith:2017:HRQZWUZDHPYIPT4RZ5D53EGLDG

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Learning Model Reparametrizations: Implicit Variational Inference by Fitting MCMC distributions

Michalis K. Titsias

arxiv:1708.01529 v1 · 2017-08-04 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HRQZWUZDHPYIPT4RZ5D53EGLDG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:37.150805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c619b53233bf087cf91cf47dd90cb19bba1f34c208ae20845048743b393108e

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01529 · arxiv_version: 1708.01529v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01529 · pith_short_12: HRQZWUZDHPYI · pith_short_16: HRQZWUZDHPYIPT4R · pith_short_8: HRQZWUZD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HRQZWUZDHPYIPT4RZ5D53EGLDG \
  | 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: 3c619b53233bf087cf91cf47dd90cb19bba1f34c208ae20845048743b393108e

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "af48a9443416e3f71ffaba5c8c0a5c14af807a679bdaf55cac6f279a1fb2e622",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-04T14:50:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8a1bd06f99deb29ac7e72522f44310d826c253dbb93684207cb6e0fc0c7458d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01529",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}