Pith Number

pith:NL2KRLBH

pith:2017:NL2KRLBH4ZBCFMJJ3UJMG5VGJK

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Approximate Inference with Amortised MCMC

Qiang Liu, Richard E. Turner, Yingzhen Li

arxiv:1702.08343 v2 · 2017-02-27 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NL2KRLBH4ZBCFMJJ3UJMG5VGJK}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:44:08.908569Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6af4a8ac27e64222b129dd12c376a64a86469b6f4efd6cd7bef84c52749ada15

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08343 · arxiv_version: 1702.08343v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08343 · pith_short_12: NL2KRLBH4ZBC · pith_short_16: NL2KRLBH4ZBCFMJJ · pith_short_8: NL2KRLBH

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NL2KRLBH4ZBCFMJJ3UJMG5VGJK \
  | 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: 6af4a8ac27e64222b129dd12c376a64a86469b6f4efd6cd7bef84c52749ada15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e358b028c55709fe370e62e12150cc93c4989d8e5313f436875efa60037d82ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-27T16:01:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "587d76cb266e1fd396a571f75f32976c687bd2d6843b0950e6c5a0ddeb27b16a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.08343",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}