Pith Number

pith:LC2XJD4O

pith:2017:LC2XJD4OQU7U6ZOFG2YKHOG76U

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Boosting Variational Inference: an Optimization Perspective

Francesco Locatello, Gunnar R\"atsch, Joydeep Ghosh, Rajiv Khanna

arxiv:1708.01733 v2 · 2017-08-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{LC2XJD4OQU7U6ZOFG2YKHOG76U}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:51.090565Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58b5748f8e853f4f65c536b0a3b8dff51c7c0914493bcace89ce35b7b681c48b

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.01733 · arxiv_version: 1708.01733v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.01733 · pith_short_12: LC2XJD4OQU7U · pith_short_16: LC2XJD4OQU7U6ZOF · pith_short_8: LC2XJD4O

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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/LC2XJD4OQU7U6ZOFG2YKHOG76U \
  | 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: 58b5748f8e853f4f65c536b0a3b8dff51c7c0914493bcace89ce35b7b681c48b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be57c188e4f98f605b5620ad1308642b83bd46ffc393a0d3de5b2db78feafe3a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-05T08:42:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ad9ac43243a1b7ae5cf1031e7df9d2c95ee0c40748e9033c1bbdcea113e377d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.01733",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}