Pith Number

pith:WIMXGEKY

pith:2013:WIMXGEKYR5IL2UEVSV4GOBYPF6

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Black Box Variational Inference

David M. Blei, Rajesh Ranganath, Sean Gerrish

arxiv:1401.0118 v1 · 2013-12-31 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\pithnumber{WIMXGEKYR5IL2UEVSV4GOBYPF6}

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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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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:03:30.990016Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b2197311588f50bd5095957867070f2fb45e48e65c857850b41b769ba8e7017f

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.0118 · arxiv_version: 1401.0118v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.0118 · pith_short_12: WIMXGEKYR5IL · pith_short_16: WIMXGEKYR5IL2UEV · pith_short_8: WIMXGEKY

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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/WIMXGEKYR5IL2UEVSV4GOBYPF6 \
  | 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: b2197311588f50bd5095957867070f2fb45e48e65c857850b41b769ba8e7017f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14ddcf576a2bf84ae66239260818bfd1b4801e7f538af92fb4ec0980fa093c19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-31T09:32:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f1b7c2904f072534a202e21007033bb574ad02e3110057e33dc7aebe5daeed15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.0118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}