Pith Number

pith:S2PJFY6P

pith:2018:S2PJFY6PYNDCJ3S24NKWSD2BYX

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Yes, but Did It Work?: Evaluating Variational Inference

Aki Vehtari, Andrew Gelman, Daniel Simpson, Yuling Yao

arxiv:1802.02538 v2 · 2018-02-07 · stat.ML · stat.CO

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\pithnumber{S2PJFY6PYNDCJ3S24NKWSD2BYX}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:32.195567Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

969e92e3cfc34624ee5ae355690f41c5dbb18376046d7efbaa223bd74bd34517

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.02538 · arxiv_version: 1802.02538v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.02538 · pith_short_12: S2PJFY6PYNDC · pith_short_16: S2PJFY6PYNDCJ3S2 · pith_short_8: S2PJFY6P

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S2PJFY6PYNDCJ3S24NKWSD2BYX \
  | 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: 969e92e3cfc34624ee5ae355690f41c5dbb18376046d7efbaa223bd74bd34517

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d5e77bef708bdd9f4c43b1b5ed683f85c7d106226f3f823220c290b7b7dd56ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-07T17:25:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8f2fdfeba2a2707ea9cbec0d2e3d88e7fa5588ea369d49041b489a8998b49e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.02538",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}