Pith Number

pith:ST5GN6BY

pith:2018:ST5GN6BYXEJH3QWAZSZFDL4NQD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Quasi-Monte Carlo Variational Inference

Alexander Buchholz, Florian Wenzel, Stephan Mandt

arxiv:1807.01604 v1 · 2018-07-04 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ST5GN6BYXEJH3QWAZSZFDL4NQD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:11:29.352881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

94fa66f838b9127dc2c0ccb251af8d80ecd469dfd66e055c4e44a68c04032470

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.01604 · arxiv_version: 1807.01604v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.01604 · pith_short_12: ST5GN6BYXEJH · pith_short_16: ST5GN6BYXEJH3QWA · pith_short_8: ST5GN6BY

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/ST5GN6BYXEJH3QWAZSZFDL4NQD \
  | 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: 94fa66f838b9127dc2c0ccb251af8d80ecd469dfd66e055c4e44a68c04032470

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "430793343446ac6d2439ec51f9e6577cbda740d28ba9ea951359c16bdd5c479a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-04T14:14:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e4c872f8250a696571f2fd1d78ea21c1709aa9f279eef2e1188b8283511727e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.01604",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}