Pith Number

pith:KFJ5UVBH

pith:2017:KFJ5UVBHHKWTNQXVS47UIRDC6Q

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A Deterministic Global Optimization Method for Variational Inference

Andrew C. Trapp, Hachem Saddiki, Patrick Flaherty

arxiv:1703.07169 v1 · 2017-03-21 · stat.ME · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KFJ5UVBHHKWTNQXVS47UIRDC6Q}

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:11.124368Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5153da54273aad36c2f5973f444462f4289c3a9069a5e7838306cfc4977bc800

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07169 · arxiv_version: 1703.07169v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07169 · pith_short_12: KFJ5UVBHHKWT · pith_short_16: KFJ5UVBHHKWTNQXV · pith_short_8: KFJ5UVBH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KFJ5UVBHHKWTNQXVS47UIRDC6Q \
  | 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: 5153da54273aad36c2f5973f444462f4289c3a9069a5e7838306cfc4977bc800

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ae0dfd762cd9f4408854d7b1a8a98d2bed4ba10b3a8f448cd4f8eb495a8ef8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-21T12:33:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b916d86f503033d661682122da89f163c590327e2cd0fefc77686cb28b69e78c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07169",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}