Pith Number

pith:VTABMKUX

pith:2017:VTABMKUXBFEOIM6PKWEUDAJQHN

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Learning to Draw Samples with Amortized Stein Variational Gradient Descent

Dilin Wang, Qiang Liu, Yihao Feng

arxiv:1707.06626 v2 · 2017-07-20 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTABMKUXBFEOIM6PKWEUDAJQHN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:31:44.958369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acc0162a970948e433cf55894181303b6aec3c721aaac40476679e533652598f

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06626 · arxiv_version: 1707.06626v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06626 · pith_short_12: VTABMKUXBFEO · pith_short_16: VTABMKUXBFEOIM6P · pith_short_8: VTABMKUX

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/VTABMKUXBFEOIM6PKWEUDAJQHN \
  | 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: acc0162a970948e433cf55894181303b6aec3c721aaac40476679e533652598f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e6ccb040ede4055eea2f7ec6e1691131a19286b2bf4b50f9b4f05df57f4511c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-20T17:35:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d953d355c7f96eea71e19cdb77fcac45a6e1ca975c73af63e7faa2d6c130297d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06626",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}