Pith Number

pith:SQMEJV7N

pith:2011:SQMEJV7NG5SE2DJHPIHAF26MU4

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Approximate inference via variational sampling

Alexis Roche

arxiv:1105.1508 v6 · 2011-05-08 · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SQMEJV7NG5SE2DJHPIHAF26MU4}

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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	2026-05-18T03:10:37.648985Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

941844d7ed37644d0d277a0e02ebcca71d97975c1806b937a953132a6f1e63b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1105.1508 · arxiv_version: 1105.1508v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1105.1508 · pith_short_12: SQMEJV7NG5SE · pith_short_16: SQMEJV7NG5SE2DJH · pith_short_8: SQMEJV7N

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/SQMEJV7NG5SE2DJHPIHAF26MU4 \
  | 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: 941844d7ed37644d0d277a0e02ebcca71d97975c1806b937a953132a6f1e63b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e95356f797b7a09b79129545bdc10245da0c6f99d8d6dfbc1815d7534396f291",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2011-05-08T12:30:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc6cc261556af9a896629ebbe08099b8dfdef756032fbb78f1ffa629e81438f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1105.1508",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}