Pith Number

pith:VI6A6ZWK

pith:2023:VI6A6ZWK4W6N347V26LLJJRDTC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sample Average Approximation for Black-Box VI

Daniel Sheldon, Javier Burroni, Justin Domke

arxiv:2304.06803 v2 · 2023-04-13 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VI6A6ZWK4W6N347V26LLJJRDTC}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T06:11:04.180127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aa3c0f66cae5bcddf3f5d796b4a62398ba8cd44696c2d9f0a1271a580c901375

Aliases

arxiv: 2304.06803 · arxiv_version: 2304.06803v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.06803 · pith_short_12: VI6A6ZWK4W6N · pith_short_16: VI6A6ZWK4W6N347V · pith_short_8: VI6A6ZWK

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/VI6A6ZWK4W6N347V26LLJJRDTC \
  | 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: aa3c0f66cae5bcddf3f5d796b4a62398ba8cd44696c2d9f0a1271a580c901375

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d2c00d1fa4851156529353298925e79e56733cf9d63ee7598a4399b9920d6aef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2023-04-13T20:04:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "689ebc9a5ef9b48e780e8c83d053638f9ffa6452a7e9af23608580868e93868f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2304.06803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}