Pith Number

pith:OQKT7FPX

pith:2020:OQKT7FPXFDIAXDZ7JMRKZDWY7R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

f-Divergence Variational Inference

Dapeng Li, Naira Hovakimyan, Neng Wan

arxiv:2009.13093 v4 · 2020-09-28 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OQKT7FPXFDIAXDZ7JMRKZDWY7R}

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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	2026-07-05T02:28:51.561083Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

74153f95f728d00b8f3f4b22ac8ed8fc78d88deac073ddf85ead2acf3d3dde9a

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.13093 · arxiv_version: 2009.13093v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.13093 · pith_short_12: OQKT7FPXFDIA · pith_short_16: OQKT7FPXFDIAXDZ7 · pith_short_8: OQKT7FPX

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/OQKT7FPXFDIAXDZ7JMRKZDWY7R \
  | 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: 74153f95f728d00b8f3f4b22ac8ed8fc78d88deac073ddf85ead2acf3d3dde9a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18c47a9684f9febe3939941b4d79a97beb9724e518456e65fcaf7219e037033e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-28T06:22:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dbb7e10d0d066fbf00450ffc60441d31d47452d23603132dd8a985f11c9c176"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.13093",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}