Pith Number

pith:TIAYUM2A

pith:2026:TIAYUM2APG7P2J4NH2WKERW522

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Gaussian Mean Field Variational Inference can Overestimate Predictive Variance

Ben Riegler, James Odgers, Siddharth Swaroop, Vincent Fortuin

arxiv:2606.25745 v1 · 2026-06-24 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TIAYUM2APG7P2J4NH2WKERW522}

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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	2026-06-25T01:18:14.141135Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a018a334079befd278d3eaca246ddd6894457124c419d3884c1ba63ce1c2edf

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.25745 · arxiv_version: 2606.25745v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.25745 · pith_short_12: TIAYUM2APG7P · pith_short_16: TIAYUM2APG7P2J4N · pith_short_8: TIAYUM2A

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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/TIAYUM2APG7P2J4NH2WKERW522 \
  | 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: 9a018a334079befd278d3eaca246ddd6894457124c419d3884c1ba63ce1c2edf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8436d94dcced1271ef9067011127deeccf59a5075c841ff936c25683ab85e8ed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T12:15:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45a2d973369314e69a499023103e9ee76b831a9a7b5657c8b2eede4226474117"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.25745",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}