Pith Number

pith:SK3VUOIT

pith:2015:SK3VUOITY4C3L7R44HU2TQ5APG

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Robust Inference with Variational Bayes

Michael Jordan, Ryan Giordano, Tamara Broderick

arxiv:1512.02578 v1 · 2015-12-08 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SK3VUOITY4C3L7R44HU2TQ5APG}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:24:44.394662Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

92b75a3913c705b5fe3ce1e9a9c3a079bd72f322d76578c293f71172b469b496

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.02578 · arxiv_version: 1512.02578v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.02578 · pith_short_12: SK3VUOITY4C3 · pith_short_16: SK3VUOITY4C3L7R4 · pith_short_8: SK3VUOIT

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/SK3VUOITY4C3L7R44HU2TQ5APG \
  | 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: 92b75a3913c705b5fe3ce1e9a9c3a079bd72f322d76578c293f71172b469b496

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4cc0f48063baef215f7984a05a844994a2f259c2c8b9df5c324ea3126cf7fe12",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-08T18:33:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43bc97bc77f554d1015a51b2aebda2e3fa4304e3a900a11e5bdac628be924803"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.02578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}