Pith Number

pith:KIWYS2F4

pith:2016:KIWYS2F4HWRTAZCNAIVZK6V76O

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Variational Inference via $\chi$-Upper Bound Minimization

Adji B. Dieng, David M. Blei, Dustin Tran, John Paisley, Rajesh Ranganath

arxiv:1611.00328 v4 · 2016-11-01 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KIWYS2F4HWRTAZCNAIVZK6V76O}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:46.668670Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

522d8968bc3da330644d022b957abff380f684880f8ebdedff3cd2ccb29c4390

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.00328 · arxiv_version: 1611.00328v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.00328 · pith_short_12: KIWYS2F4HWRT · pith_short_16: KIWYS2F4HWRTAZCN · pith_short_8: KIWYS2F4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KIWYS2F4HWRTAZCNAIVZK6V76O \
  | 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: 522d8968bc3da330644d022b957abff380f684880f8ebdedff3cd2ccb29c4390

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78e9b00e46132c7a5a22c783f7f4800892b4f5ea59d05157e363184402ee747a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-01T18:40:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e5ac4d75e01d67c451f18681adb819cfccb188e4ce044b90cb01b76f110a4fb2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.00328",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}