Pith Number

pith:JV356EQ5

pith:2016:JV356EQ5V7SDFUJ6V7PMXKNGEP

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Monte Carlo Structured SVI for Two-Level Non-Conjugate Models

Rishit Sheth, Roni Khardon

arxiv:1612.03957 v3 · 2016-12-12 · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{JV356EQ5V7SDFUJ6V7PMXKNGEP}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:35.481532Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d77df121dafe432d13eafdecba9a623e60953d2e63a2ebdef074f06e0649390

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03957 · arxiv_version: 1612.03957v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03957 · pith_short_12: JV356EQ5V7SD · pith_short_16: JV356EQ5V7SDFUJ6 · pith_short_8: JV356EQ5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JV356EQ5V7SDFUJ6V7PMXKNGEP \
  | 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: 4d77df121dafe432d13eafdecba9a623e60953d2e63a2ebdef074f06e0649390

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f0cda6a74c5b026794a12b681f38a1c6e043c07e1fb2fdb6d4b7052a0c715598",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-12T22:36:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "09abbc7d27f30c381af6048ce1d1483884c3688982ce74be43a3afdf5ad9b3fe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03957",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}