Pith Number

pith:WV4BCSEZ

pith:2014:WV4BCSEZGAUNVZ5LOQYPYDGCRY

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On Using Control Variates with Stochastic Approximation for Variational Bayes and its Connection to Stochastic Linear Regression

David A. Knowles, Tim Salimans

arxiv:1401.1022 v3 · 2014-01-06 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WV4BCSEZGAUNVZ5LOQYPYDGCRY}

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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	2026-05-18T03:02:33.776855Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5781148993028dae7ab7430fc0cc28e28b75d0f4c669ce1bd8c27c39d5b83c3

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.1022 · arxiv_version: 1401.1022v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.1022 · pith_short_12: WV4BCSEZGAUN · pith_short_16: WV4BCSEZGAUNVZ5L · pith_short_8: WV4BCSEZ

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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/WV4BCSEZGAUNVZ5LOQYPYDGCRY \
  | 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: b5781148993028dae7ab7430fc0cc28e28b75d0f4c669ce1bd8c27c39d5b83c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b330350ea9c15184a2533a253e476b8590dd6ae1b954887443f25ae8022f851",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-06T09:51:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7639e50ca592a90fa98743d4b7b947eb68c69cfc6c9fcc51ef18c4f98fbe05a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.1022",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}