Pith Number

pith:NLOIDC4P

pith:2014:NLOIDC4PQ427QTOWR54DPN37F5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structured Stochastic Variational Inference

David M. Blei, Matthew D. Hoffman

arxiv:1404.4114 v3 · 2014-04-16 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NLOIDC4PQ427QTOWR54DPN37F5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:32:46.138951Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6adc818b8f8735f84dd68f7837b77f2f707a8c1576559788d51eff3ef353364d

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.4114 · arxiv_version: 1404.4114v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.4114 · pith_short_12: NLOIDC4PQ427 · pith_short_16: NLOIDC4PQ427QTOW · pith_short_8: NLOIDC4P

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/NLOIDC4PQ427QTOWR54DPN37F5 \
  | 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: 6adc818b8f8735f84dd68f7837b77f2f707a8c1576559788d51eff3ef353364d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "524134bb1c1585fc60b0d53f0404a5eab8c57b77dab72afbe7bc199fda7f7d95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-16T00:12:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fad70a0fa2198ae3b24af62a190c39ef32295ff1ca7523dcfe2b8d1ab7c2b9c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.4114",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}