Pith Number

pith:KU7CTU2F

pith:2014:KU7CTU2FHYULSIORZGQ2HHZSXN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Tempering

David Blei, Farhan Abrol, James McInerney, Rajesh Ranganath, Stephan Mandt

arxiv:1411.1810 v4 · 2014-11-07 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KU7CTU2FHYULSIORZGQ2HHZSXN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:13:28.810716Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

553e29d3453e28b921d1c9a1a39f32bb74715196832d8c7541c098b53096920e

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.1810 · arxiv_version: 1411.1810v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.1810 · pith_short_12: KU7CTU2FHYUL · pith_short_16: KU7CTU2FHYULSIOR · pith_short_8: KU7CTU2F

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/KU7CTU2FHYULSIORZGQ2HHZSXN \
  | 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: 553e29d3453e28b921d1c9a1a39f32bb74715196832d8c7541c098b53096920e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9684e549030e373327b2bb9a5862f226b21c68c0ac81e9107ce9e2ff015fcde",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-07T01:28:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48335ad1e738ef114d856a5ed9ede0a68be1ebc758020c0b1309ff1e271230f7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.1810",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}