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pith:QX43CT5G

pith:2016:QX43CT5G3YNMBQGOZRFCUB7KRK

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Overdispersed Black-Box Variational Inference

David M. Blei, Francisco J. R. Ruiz, Michalis K. Titsias

arxiv:1603.01140 v1 · 2016-03-03 · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:19:39.572262Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85f9b14fa6de1ac0c0cecc4a2a07ea8aa027f93074185b0f6d79d98d79cb4555

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.01140 · arxiv_version: 1603.01140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.01140 · pith_short_12: QX43CT5G3YNM · pith_short_16: QX43CT5G3YNMBQGO · pith_short_8: QX43CT5G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QX43CT5G3YNMBQGOZRFCUB7KRK \
  | 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: 85f9b14fa6de1ac0c0cecc4a2a07ea8aa027f93074185b0f6d79d98d79cb4555

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "370cd0b592798cc5e1532acdbbe5f039300a5acc44ad15d635c4b9b704a681ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-03T15:48:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dbb2a960c79f2d586320387d32debc65fe1a960325fdf44fb35a8a8d454b7ed0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.01140",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}