Pith Number

pith:NZNR6BOB

pith:2026:NZNR6BOB42WKQEQDM3OV35GVCQ

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Wasserstein Contraction of Coordinate Ascent Variational Inference

Adrien Corenflos, Rocco Caprio, Sam Power

arxiv:2605.30253 v1 · 2026-05-28 · stat.ML · cs.LG · math.FA · math.OC · math.PR · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NZNR6BOB42WKQEQDM3OV35GVCQ}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-29T02:06:14.105054Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e5b1f05c1e6aca8120366dd5df4d5143c455c1e6e6b020a4cb92dfafa398345

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30253 · arxiv_version: 2605.30253v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30253 · pith_short_12: NZNR6BOB42WK · pith_short_16: NZNR6BOB42WKQEQD · pith_short_8: NZNR6BOB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NZNR6BOB42WKQEQDM3OV35GVCQ \
  | 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: 6e5b1f05c1e6aca8120366dd5df4d5143c455c1e6e6b020a4cb92dfafa398345

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "438feeda6ad201f6bdc389f3d8d0d3f225459f90f2bb1adfb47e8a7cfcbfa075",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.FA",
      "math.OC",
      "math.PR",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T17:16:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8cb525de5f80f42c5954f18897939e559df5b4fff494197feaf39ee085f0be51"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30253",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}