Pith Number

pith:VULMHMZN

pith:2016:VULMHMZNEGAD3XN5P2TNXFDJIG

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On numerical approximation schemes for expectation propagation

Alexis Roche

arxiv:1611.04416 v1 · 2016-11-14 · stat.CO · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VULMHMZNEGAD3XN5P2TNXFDJIG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:48.933051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad16c3b32d21803dddbd7ea6db946941ab1871422de7fd46e99d7acc0104528a

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.04416 · arxiv_version: 1611.04416v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.04416 · pith_short_12: VULMHMZNEGAD · pith_short_16: VULMHMZNEGAD3XN5 · pith_short_8: VULMHMZN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VULMHMZNEGAD3XN5P2TNXFDJIG \
  | 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: ad16c3b32d21803dddbd7ea6db946941ab1871422de7fd46e99d7acc0104528a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7629932b1c040711b6affcd2328d7c9d73ddc1b0b5d790a3dc889a9c620387f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-14T15:21:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e973a32367ed43cd9e514bc4a266ac20934f4a02d147c965234f65226cba88c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.04416",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}