Pith Number

pith:QYV2UCKT

pith:2018:QYV2UCKTQLQKLTOVU74TT2BIBX

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Importance Weighting and Variational Inference

Daniel Sheldon, Justin Domke

arxiv:1808.09034 v3 · 2018-08-27 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{QYV2UCKTQLQKLTOVU74TT2BIBX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:09.203520Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

862baa095382e0a5cdd5a7f939e8280dea265d3c9ddb23a8cb6c94013e0f04d0

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.09034 · arxiv_version: 1808.09034v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.09034 · pith_short_12: QYV2UCKTQLQK · pith_short_16: QYV2UCKTQLQKLTOV · pith_short_8: QYV2UCKT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QYV2UCKTQLQKLTOVU74TT2BIBX \
  | 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: 862baa095382e0a5cdd5a7f939e8280dea265d3c9ddb23a8cb6c94013e0f04d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "753d716d8b6eafa568a93d8a25740a2fa6fdec42aca4b562238f00c3e281449c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-27T21:12:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9987c7536e5d1b6bc80cf76686767dc7481fff9bdcc0551849c35ea818612f45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.09034",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}