Pith Number

pith:LANEYJLJ

pith:2021:LANEYJLJBHASO6PPT432GXAYRM

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Challenges and Opportunities in High-dimensional Variational Inference

Akash Kumar Dhaka, Aki Vehtari, Alejandro Catalina, Jonathan Huggins, Manushi Welandawe, Michael Riis Andersen

arxiv:2103.01085 v2 · 2021-03-01 · cs.LG · stat.ME · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{LANEYJLJBHASO6PPT432GXAYRM}

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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	2026-07-05T02:53:56.105127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

581a4c256909c12779ef9f37a35c188b212c6edd9e37d4eca8efc85cb6d91399

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.01085 · arxiv_version: 2103.01085v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.01085 · pith_short_12: LANEYJLJBHAS · pith_short_16: LANEYJLJBHASO6PP · pith_short_8: LANEYJLJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LANEYJLJBHASO6PPT432GXAYRM \
  | 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: 581a4c256909c12779ef9f37a35c188b212c6edd9e37d4eca8efc85cb6d91399

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d11b1c145e64fa7b63ca5287f81cc8595c42770cf305334362f006a4f4900503",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-03-01T15:53:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "112c9f642b603c74fe27b8bfb2ccde4abeb7eb14cbd9048688e737d2a1bbe158"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.01085",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}