Pith Number

pith:VTKYUMNU

pith:2018:VTKYUMNUAESX7OTCMWYSSSN4KL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nesting Probabilistic Programs

Tom Rainforth

arxiv:1803.06328 v2 · 2018-03-16 · stat.ML · cs.PL · stat.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTKYUMNUAESX7OTCMWYSSSN4KL}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:35.877919Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acd58a31b401257fba6265b12949bc52f43343c5d2e884e5627818f8cd5e3e98

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.06328 · arxiv_version: 1803.06328v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.06328 · pith_short_12: VTKYUMNUAESX · pith_short_16: VTKYUMNUAESX7OTC · pith_short_8: VTKYUMNU

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/VTKYUMNUAESX7OTCMWYSSSN4KL \
  | 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: acd58a31b401257fba6265b12949bc52f43343c5d2e884e5627818f8cd5e3e98

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "67a2eadaf634b125ded182d860713a21d2b1a4a6b0da504b9c3280868d64f423",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.PL",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-16T17:30:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6137868c10833bed5703d7acf1e7556cbcf1e5edcb5bdbe9ba9e49d623e0bb8e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.06328",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}