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pith:TH7ZMFT5

pith:2017:TH7ZMFT5PBCWZTVOT4RCOFGMFT

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Hierarchical Implicit Models and Likelihood-Free Variational Inference

David M. Blei, Dustin Tran, Rajesh Ranganath

arxiv:1702.08896 v3 · 2017-02-28 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.CO · stat.ME

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:22.009508Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

99ff96167d78456cceae9f222714cc2cc4e5497f5f3c430122e0c07d161a8c90

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08896 · arxiv_version: 1702.08896v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08896 · pith_short_12: TH7ZMFT5PBCW · pith_short_16: TH7ZMFT5PBCWZTVO · pith_short_8: TH7ZMFT5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TH7ZMFT5PBCWZTVOT4RCOFGMFT \
  | 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: 99ff96167d78456cceae9f222714cc2cc4e5497f5f3c430122e0c07d161a8c90

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-28T18:33:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2576affcc9f2422f1026b2542c4a6cf1b9ebc864fe0bd72fb926a9ef697afbb1"
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