Pith Number

pith:IQYN34VO

pith:2016:IQYN34VODTIHNY52LGS7JY5JMP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Operator Variational Inference

David M. Blei, Dustin Tran, Jaan Altosaar, Rajesh Ranganath

arxiv:1610.09033 v3 · 2016-10-27 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.CO · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IQYN34VODTIHNY52LGS7JY5JMP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:57.062370Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4430ddf2ae1cd076e3ba59a5f4e3a963de93dc9610a50fd3560aa0915431ced0

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.09033 · arxiv_version: 1610.09033v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.09033 · pith_short_12: IQYN34VODTIH · pith_short_16: IQYN34VODTIHNY52 · pith_short_8: IQYN34VO

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/IQYN34VODTIHNY52LGS7JY5JMP \
  | 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: 4430ddf2ae1cd076e3ba59a5f4e3a963de93dc9610a50fd3560aa0915431ced0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8d1df8817e5ae4b8dd457e733d6ec2c18e623ca477ef639b23734879a444052",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-27T23:32:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa3c4dff07913bad4caf2dccb7bc9cc49710636afa624f702a2c150cb7d87004"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.09033",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}