Pith Number

pith:VVCLARJJ

pith:2016:VVCLARJJCC7AHBSSPV5LZZQRIN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Parallel local approximation MCMC for expensive models

Aaron Smith, Andrew Davis, Natesh Pillai, Patrick Conrad, Youssef Marzouk

arxiv:1607.02788 v2 · 2016-07-10 · stat.CO · stat.AP · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVCLARJJCC7AHBSSPV5LZZQRIN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:22.228791Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad44b0452910be0386527d7abce6114354af15b62e89f49f596151b13ccfde7e

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.02788 · arxiv_version: 1607.02788v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.02788 · pith_short_12: VVCLARJJCC7A · pith_short_16: VVCLARJJCC7AHBSS · pith_short_8: VVCLARJJ

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/VVCLARJJCC7AHBSSPV5LZZQRIN \
  | 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: ad44b0452910be0386527d7abce6114354af15b62e89f49f596151b13ccfde7e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "12f336d1d26c701c097b3e33a0e31076e46afee36841710b9adf6b4d956331bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.AP",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-10T21:46:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f51bc2fc88352f203f3f60242a6f421709d5767c5af72b0756e2ca4576a861af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.02788",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}