Pith Number

pith:VWFFZZDZ

pith:2026:VWFFZZDZHQKV3Z54FRB6NIX5AM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Composing Non-Conjugate Factor Graphs with Closed-Form Variational Inference

Bert de Vries, Dmitry Bagaev, \.Ismail \c{S}en\"oz, Jeff Beck, Kyrylo Yemets, Mykola Lukashchuk, Wouter M. Kouw

arxiv:2605.29467 v1 · 2026-05-28 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWFFZZDZHQKV3Z54FRB6NIX5AM}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-29T01:05:41.122391Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad8a5ce4793c155de7bc2c43e6a2fd0327c3ee9684b16eb5ef23152d3c46c55e

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.29467 · arxiv_version: 2605.29467v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.29467 · pith_short_12: VWFFZZDZHQKV · pith_short_16: VWFFZZDZHQKV3Z54 · pith_short_8: VWFFZZDZ

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/VWFFZZDZHQKV3Z54FRB6NIX5AM \
  | 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: ad8a5ce4793c155de7bc2c43e6a2fd0327c3ee9684b16eb5ef23152d3c46c55e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44c2fcd29dfa4163d6578b1f1a9eef9bb6bc4610afc8356afd5208cb202c1115",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T06:59:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d1f4e8fc6943732c8a8a1d9615bc6c67e4b4722ab30617e046e836275e7e4e80"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.29467",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}