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pith:N53GHUGV

pith:2016:N53GHUGVZ3YECMIB3ZBA3IRLW4

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Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians

Alp Kucukelbir, David M. Blei, Jon D. McAuliffe

arxiv:1601.00670 v9 · 2016-01-04 · stat.CO · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:19.626287Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f7663d0d5cef0413101de420da22bb73c836394fa4c54f1094778232ced65a1

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.00670 · arxiv_version: 1601.00670v9 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.00670 · pith_short_12: N53GHUGVZ3YE · pith_short_16: N53GHUGVZ3YECMIB · pith_short_8: N53GHUGV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N53GHUGVZ3YECMIB3ZBA3IRLW4 \
  | 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: 6f7663d0d5cef0413101de420da22bb73c836394fa4c54f1094778232ced65a1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "78eed5d8b9397085bd53c9eb372e0dad91175ba3e5dee228c51d033d256301b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-04T21:28:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f97f1978b5fa9a3220ed1a3742abc940d8f3da61e860bafdd71035d40120af8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.00670",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 9
  }
}