Pith Number

pith:OCHM25XC

pith:2019:OCHM25XC2JAZZXKWWKMN43OL76

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational approximations using Fisher divergence

Howard Bondell, Ryan Martin, Yue Yang

arxiv:1905.05284 v1 · 2019-05-13 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.CO · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OCHM25XC2JAZZXKWWKMN43OL76}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:16.942417Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

708ecd76e2d2419cdd56b298de6dcbff848bbfe5968a175d116760ec1ed8b30b

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.05284 · arxiv_version: 1905.05284v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.05284 · pith_short_12: OCHM25XC2JAZ · pith_short_16: OCHM25XC2JAZZXKW · pith_short_8: OCHM25XC

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/OCHM25XC2JAZZXKWWKMN43OL76 \
  | 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: 708ecd76e2d2419cdd56b298de6dcbff848bbfe5968a175d116760ec1ed8b30b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5872200aa789c0a4f57f29844a6eb1de7313db0a49464c19c2740fd4d7d61cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-13T20:58:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9d358c929673131a4dc7ba19c5115e783caa7cbd2e8f98abe1ce8bf8a143e037"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.05284",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}