Pith Number

pith:T2CRWX3Z

pith:2017:T2CRWX3ZWMZMDZVHBCT6IOIAUM

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Riemannian Stein Variational Gradient Descent for Bayesian Inference

Chang Liu, Jun Zhu

arxiv:1711.11216 v1 · 2017-11-30 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T2CRWX3ZWMZMDZVHBCT6IOIAUM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:12.186093Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e851b5f79b332c1e6a708a7e43900a327bcaa25167e7138e8985f95e1e25342

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.11216 · arxiv_version: 1711.11216v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.11216 · pith_short_12: T2CRWX3ZWMZM · pith_short_16: T2CRWX3ZWMZMDZVH · pith_short_8: T2CRWX3Z

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/T2CRWX3ZWMZMDZVHBCT6IOIAUM \
  | 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: 9e851b5f79b332c1e6a708a7e43900a327bcaa25167e7138e8985f95e1e25342

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d218f167f5a6277dd712a1dd01eefc4b418a459f519d68b73f9daded0b280f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-30T04:11:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41efa50fe0d2667b72deb6caebf4604f43d243c49f2317abbf6e2659e5fc343f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.11216",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}