Pith Number

pith:RIPITWBE

pith:2014:RIPITWBE63ZU66PJEVNYA7PL7N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Particle Approximations

Ardavan Saeedi, Samuel Gershman, Tejas D Kulkarni, Vikash Mansinghka

arxiv:1402.5715 v3 · 2014-02-24 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RIPITWBE63ZU66PJEVNYA7PL7N}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:25:16.307133Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a1e89d824f6f34f79e9255b807debfb74e42ddddda951067228db82c33cda66

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.5715 · arxiv_version: 1402.5715v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.5715 · pith_short_12: RIPITWBE63ZU · pith_short_16: RIPITWBE63ZU66PJ · pith_short_8: RIPITWBE

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/RIPITWBE63ZU66PJEVNYA7PL7N \
  | 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: 8a1e89d824f6f34f79e9255b807debfb74e42ddddda951067228db82c33cda66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "721066d2ec25b82d73af246bb2dcf650c05b0b697c39bd2324c58daa0bcce7b4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-24T03:58:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a6c959617d81e08ba4ffddc908b939750d345e0edbe501c946f215caee59f1e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.5715",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}