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pith:WNBT3XSU

pith:2024:WNBT3XSUDGYHN4BTLIU7TFTBQZ

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Batch and match: black-box variational inference with a score-based divergence

Charles C. Margossian, Chirag Modi, David M. Blei, Diana Cai, Lawrence K. Saul, Loucas Pillaud-Vivien, Robert M. Gower

arxiv:2402.14758 v2 · 2024-02-22 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.CO

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:30:50.511364Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

b3433dde5419b076f0335a29f996618678380ccb2fe394bdc677f50b003d7fb2

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arxiv: 2402.14758 · arxiv_version: 2402.14758v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2402.14758 · pith_short_12: WNBT3XSUDGYH · pith_short_16: WNBT3XSUDGYHN4BT · pith_short_8: WNBT3XSU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WNBT3XSUDGYHN4BTLIU7TFTBQZ \
  | 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: b3433dde5419b076f0335a29f996618678380ccb2fe394bdc677f50b003d7fb2

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2024-02-22T18:20:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "401bf7dea5bbbbd19626448e66db8e4822d5badcef20a37c93a9798668917b84"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}