Pith Number

pith:RWIXMMIX

pith:2017:RWIXMMIXIRAPRUGB5FZE2ECOQW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Stein Variational Gradient Descent as Gradient Flow

Qiang Liu

arxiv:1704.07520 v2 · 2017-04-25 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RWIXMMIXIRAPRUGB5FZE2ECOQW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:45.086893Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d917631174440f8d0c1e9724d104e85b876ea9f71130c9024b4f8516d153b81

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.07520 · arxiv_version: 1704.07520v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.07520 · pith_short_12: RWIXMMIXIRAP · pith_short_16: RWIXMMIXIRAPRUGB · pith_short_8: RWIXMMIX

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/RWIXMMIXIRAPRUGB5FZE2ECOQW \
  | 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: 8d917631174440f8d0c1e9724d104e85b876ea9f71130c9024b4f8516d153b81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3180801b5c4cdd01d0095bf697eefe15920ce682b83c66834aa51f0dadd6fd4f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-25T03:01:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87fa80dbaf534e28bfacf043558cc1736fbb4f7c52617ea42a48eeece4a98b32"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.07520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}