Pith Number

pith:JSXMIXWW

pith:2018:JSXMIXWWMJ4EHRSX5HC27FUYWA

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Semi-Implicit Variational Inference

Mingyuan Zhou, Mingzhang Yin

arxiv:1805.11183 v1 · 2018-05-28 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JSXMIXWWMJ4EHRSX5HC27FUYWA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:43.638584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4caec45ed6627843c657e9c5af9698b00f5bb4d352f5569bf45837c72fb16818

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.11183 · arxiv_version: 1805.11183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.11183 · pith_short_12: JSXMIXWWMJ4E · pith_short_16: JSXMIXWWMJ4EHRSX · pith_short_8: JSXMIXWW

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/JSXMIXWWMJ4EHRSX5HC27FUYWA \
  | 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: 4caec45ed6627843c657e9c5af9698b00f5bb4d352f5569bf45837c72fb16818

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0cc01eb44ab43ca39793f57f45f20f8517c93a0c27194be4775f019b9bfcf18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-28T21:55:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7261e4c7cb2ff5e16daadf69f6b91047942c032a4c7d1407f40fbfba226ddfd3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.11183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}