Pith Number

pith:OZFQCE5M

pith:2022:OZFQCE5MXRHODF6VKWQ4FLFWMQ

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Alpha-divergence Variational Inference Meets Importance Weighted Auto-Encoders: Methodology and Asymptotics

Arnaud Doucet, Joe Benton, Kam\'elia Daudel, Yuyang Shi

arxiv:2210.06226 v2 · 2022-10-12 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{OZFQCE5MXRHODF6VKWQ4FLFWMQ}

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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	2026-07-05T06:32:34.657152Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

764b0113acbc4ee197d555a1c2acb6641b6d54934a2d0d376a1789f602f7d74b

Aliases

arxiv: 2210.06226 · arxiv_version: 2210.06226v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.06226 · pith_short_12: OZFQCE5MXRHO · pith_short_16: OZFQCE5MXRHODF6V · pith_short_8: OZFQCE5M

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OZFQCE5MXRHODF6VKWQ4FLFWMQ \
  | 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: 764b0113acbc4ee197d555a1c2acb6641b6d54934a2d0d376a1789f602f7d74b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02c3678f2d8ebc931ae66464a40aa5a72a9322c673d8ab9bc8a36b6afd08e308",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2022-10-12T14:15:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9641e819dc1ca1542bd3dcb41e1a7ac81b4859e1bb01f972535eb8903a408e98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2210.06226",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}