Pith Number

pith:VZCLCOEP

pith:2019:VZCLCOEPL4TBMVVESXIDIUBOMT

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Divide and Couple: Using Monte Carlo Variational Objectives for Posterior Approximation

Daniel Sheldon, Justin Domke

arxiv:1906.10115 v3 · 2019-06-24 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZCLCOEPL4TBMVVESXIDIUBOMT}

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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	2026-07-05T00:30:16.717311Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae44b1388f5f261656a495d034502e64f6ae44af7c04fd49795ea787cc8899a4

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.10115 · arxiv_version: 1906.10115v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.10115 · pith_short_12: VZCLCOEPL4TB · pith_short_16: VZCLCOEPL4TBMVVE · pith_short_8: VZCLCOEP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VZCLCOEPL4TBMVVESXIDIUBOMT \
  | 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: ae44b1388f5f261656a495d034502e64f6ae44af7c04fd49795ea787cc8899a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e3ee69825ca8c5260c3c094fd879980cf1c99bc4a2993e47b1927377053b7930",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-24T17:57:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ded4761bc4c49804d6d1c24cbde4ed4730270910a4425dd44c86b4db181e6eae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.10115",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}