Pith Number

pith:SV4FPCIL

pith:2017:SV4FPCILECSX6IDV7JT5U6RJCG

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Fast Black-box Variational Inference through Stochastic Trust-Region Optimization

Jeffrey Regier, Jon McAuliffe, Michael I. Jordan

arxiv:1706.02375 v2 · 2017-06-07 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SV4FPCILECSX6IDV7JT5U6RJCG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:19.290874Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

957857890b20a57f2075fa67da7a291197ffd08a9b7b02d7c047290d98e47c39

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.02375 · arxiv_version: 1706.02375v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.02375 · pith_short_12: SV4FPCILECSX · pith_short_16: SV4FPCILECSX6IDV · pith_short_8: SV4FPCIL

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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/SV4FPCILECSX6IDV7JT5U6RJCG \
  | 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: 957857890b20a57f2075fa67da7a291197ffd08a9b7b02d7c047290d98e47c39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8206347c33853a4c484324fa82672ed3881bc75e239f8f8fe6c38a4b3b60ff16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-07T20:37:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aead7ace0b19e76e0acd3ca44c6aedb9749af276849cf92d568a1e3aea3bbebb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.02375",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}