Pith Number

pith:N22KNQQW

pith:2012:N22KNQQW3QVGK76M6APIDBS3GF

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A Generalized Mean Field Algorithm for Variational Inference in Exponential Families

Eric P. Xing, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russell

arxiv:1212.2512 v1 · 2012-10-19 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{N22KNQQW3QVGK76M6APIDBS3GF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:38:44.419668Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6eb4a6c216dc2a657fccf01e81865b315ede9196fa9ed637a2184311089bd3b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2512 · arxiv_version: 1212.2512v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2512 · pith_short_12: N22KNQQW3QVG · pith_short_16: N22KNQQW3QVGK76M · pith_short_8: N22KNQQW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N22KNQQW3QVGK76M6APIDBS3GF \
  | 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: 6eb4a6c216dc2a657fccf01e81865b315ede9196fa9ed637a2184311089bd3b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7a890e92649c1052b07a420f3ef53d7891862d980738a01757fc2d99bffdc27e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-19T15:08:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b16ba357969849c4737adb9716fd490ebf9ee3ba05c5a350d716f595de5a5bbd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.2512",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}