Pith Number

pith:VXU2J3F4

pith:2012:VXU2J3F4BRTRDP4D7QL35CAX4C

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Variational Inference in Nonconjugate Models

Chong Wang, David M. Blei

arxiv:1209.4360 v4 · 2012-09-19 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXU2J3F4BRTRDP4D7QL35CAX4C}

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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	2026-05-18T03:31:06.616251Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ade9a4ecbc0c6711bf83fc17be8817e0989348bf5780d6983e050de710cb440b

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.4360 · arxiv_version: 1209.4360v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.4360 · pith_short_12: VXU2J3F4BRTR · pith_short_16: VXU2J3F4BRTRDP4D · pith_short_8: VXU2J3F4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VXU2J3F4BRTRDP4D7QL35CAX4C \
  | 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: ade9a4ecbc0c6711bf83fc17be8817e0989348bf5780d6983e050de710cb440b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de65d09d49bb48e5f080e564a51d3d33555d31196fc063cc52992f1dba93a8b1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-19T20:05:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "765cdbb620f3e5c966d22d35760844e75e035a90c7b8129e35e99de244f9a16e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.4360",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}