Pith Number

pith:KK6M6EAV

pith:2017:KK6M6EAVW7IPYET6YJJHGXDXHJ

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Approximate Bayesian inference as a gauge theory

Biswa Sengupta, Karl Friston

arxiv:1705.06614 v2 · 2017-05-17 · q-bio.NC · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KK6M6EAVW7IPYET6YJJHGXDXHJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:44.800811Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

52bccf1015b7d0fc127ec252735c773a654cfca8ce319153913a396daff07692

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.06614 · arxiv_version: 1705.06614v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.06614 · pith_short_12: KK6M6EAVW7IP · pith_short_16: KK6M6EAVW7IPYET6 · pith_short_8: KK6M6EAV

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/KK6M6EAVW7IPYET6YJJHGXDXHJ \
  | 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: 52bccf1015b7d0fc127ec252735c773a654cfca8ce319153913a396daff07692

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45cae44e3de1543785748256578bf55ac8983aa10cb909b9169add32e1d5f8b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-17T13:13:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a185dfc48c1e75688f95028e62069670797ae660cff9b90d31ecc97b0b43a90a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.06614",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}