Pith Number

pith:OMDUQG3P

pith:2017:OMDUQG3PWMRL3PYZB7YZQG3KOJ

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Perturbative Black Box Variational Inference

Cheng Zhang, Manfred Opper, Robert Bamler, Stephan Mandt

arxiv:1709.07433 v2 · 2017-09-21 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OMDUQG3PWMRL3PYZB7YZQG3KOJ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:36.437705Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7307481b6fb322bdbf190ff1981b6a727a7232216624b671dcc7794e22f57557

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.07433 · arxiv_version: 1709.07433v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.07433 · pith_short_12: OMDUQG3PWMRL · pith_short_16: OMDUQG3PWMRL3PYZ · pith_short_8: OMDUQG3P

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/OMDUQG3PWMRL3PYZB7YZQG3KOJ \
  | 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: 7307481b6fb322bdbf190ff1981b6a727a7232216624b671dcc7794e22f57557

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a80157a74e1a61c7e82ce989374b4e11ff2e7aa49ca84c77972d7180c666b6ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-21T17:50:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d497edd95fdfd086941f4a602a14bf683342802a9c07ee509a76bc192ae4bdd4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.07433",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}