Pith Number

pith:LY3RKJJA

pith:2016:LY3RKJJABMPWSMXUD566WNINUP

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Variational inference for Monte Carlo objectives

Andriy Mnih, Danilo J. Rezende

arxiv:1602.06725 v2 · 2016-02-22 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:13:09.397701Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e371525200b1f6932f41f7deb350da3c1968ccf7d3c2fb51b2fa40065f68ede

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.06725 · arxiv_version: 1602.06725v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.06725 · pith_short_12: LY3RKJJABMPW · pith_short_16: LY3RKJJABMPWSMXU · pith_short_8: LY3RKJJA

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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/LY3RKJJABMPWSMXUD566WNINUP \
  | 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: 5e371525200b1f6932f41f7deb350da3c1968ccf7d3c2fb51b2fa40065f68ede

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2b707c892266688a2cefc14ba9f6870b7bd1f7379aaf4199818ea73ff8a73d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-22T11:06:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64844c7a82d6eb1819a0d302de12b7908ba2b8198d0fb181650eeacd2692960a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.06725",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}