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pith:JMWVD2DS

pith:2015:JMWVD2DS2HU7KY77JDJHXRNKW2

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Embarrassingly Parallel Variational Inference in Nonconjugate Models

Chong Wang, Eric Xing, Willie Neiswanger

arxiv:1510.04163 v1 · 2015-10-14 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.DC · cs.LG · stat.CO

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:30:09.048507Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b2d51e872d1e9f563ff48d27bc5aab6b3e9b45533a4f9fdee916654cad8b07a

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.04163 · arxiv_version: 1510.04163v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.04163 · pith_short_12: JMWVD2DS2HU7 · pith_short_16: JMWVD2DS2HU7KY77 · pith_short_8: JMWVD2DS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JMWVD2DS2HU7KY77JDJHXRNKW2 \
  | 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: 4b2d51e872d1e9f563ff48d27bc5aab6b3e9b45533a4f9fdee916654cad8b07a

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-14T15:48:19Z",
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  }
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