Pith Number

pith:UMG2NOO6

pith:2019:UMG2NOO6SVYLENUX6Z7ILWZCQL

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Provable Gradient Variance Guarantees for Black-Box Variational Inference

Justin Domke

arxiv:1906.08241 v2 · 2019-06-19 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UMG2NOO6SVYLENUX6Z7ILWZCQL}

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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	2026-07-05T00:15:06.590380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a30da6b9de9570b23697f67e85db2282edc1e4124adbbeca6d403038982f6cfe

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.08241 · arxiv_version: 1906.08241v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.08241 · pith_short_12: UMG2NOO6SVYL · pith_short_16: UMG2NOO6SVYLENUX · pith_short_8: UMG2NOO6

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/UMG2NOO6SVYLENUX6Z7ILWZCQL \
  | 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: a30da6b9de9570b23697f67e85db2282edc1e4124adbbeca6d403038982f6cfe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "664d3a30bc0e611e164025e00034cbe684c532086be1d2372179d6e670aa090b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-19T17:41:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a7cb70efd00afa13326ced95d25a229c63ef7a3a3ed816a1a7d332befd566eb5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.08241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}