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pith:NQADLMUC

pith:2016:NQADLMUCUQMS2LINQXR6UOVXYX

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Variational Boosting: Iteratively Refining Posterior Approximations

Andrew C. Miller, Nicholas Foti, Ryan P. Adams

arxiv:1611.06585 v2 · 2016-11-20 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.ME

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:50:28.903815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

6c0035b282a4192d2d0d85e3ea3ab7c5ea5d93b482b84290af945c0ed775b3ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.06585 · arxiv_version: 1611.06585v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.06585 · pith_short_12: NQADLMUCUQMS · pith_short_16: NQADLMUCUQMS2LIN · pith_short_8: NQADLMUC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NQADLMUCUQMS2LINQXR6UOVXYX \
  | 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: 6c0035b282a4192d2d0d85e3ea3ab7c5ea5d93b482b84290af945c0ed775b3ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6582f9d483f3d709bdc877732531ed78c79838391e662007ff80ca001a3bbf87",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-20T20:25:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c44b60d0de15c22445ff2ffe7bfbd8fc7758d11ae70d7cafb478c4979a561ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.06585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}