Pith Number

pith:QINER6XK

pith:2015:QINER6XKBVSVC2QUW65RS6UMRY

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A Geometric View of Posterior Approximation

Babak Shahbaba, Jeffrey Streets, Tian Chen

arxiv:1510.00861 v1 · 2015-10-03 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QINER6XKBVSVC2QUW65RS6UMRY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:31:05.472278Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

821a48faea0d65516a14b7bb197a8c8e355623782f78376aaf0aca99ce9943a2

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.00861 · arxiv_version: 1510.00861v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.00861 · pith_short_12: QINER6XKBVSV · pith_short_16: QINER6XKBVSVC2QU · pith_short_8: QINER6XK

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/QINER6XKBVSVC2QUW65RS6UMRY \
  | 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: 821a48faea0d65516a14b7bb197a8c8e355623782f78376aaf0aca99ce9943a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "45a96f7dabe99b33f5b417a6d475cea650bf4df1595900b32a7409271c6bbbaa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-03T20:05:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f99730b314e1dd538d79c4ece8c7cf3d18614c149b1af3da154f9a91f2b0404c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.00861",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}