Pith Number

pith:WWLPSYMB

pith:2021:WWLPSYMBTYSL5KPYDZ2ADX7UWF

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An Easy to Interpret Diagnostic for Approximate Inference: Symmetric Divergence Over Simulations

Justin Domke

arxiv:2103.01030 v1 · 2021-02-25 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WWLPSYMBTYSL5KPYDZ2ADX7UWF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:19:11.910848Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b596f961819e24bea9f81e7401dff4b1571f30418df7adcec6aa966694878738

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.01030 · arxiv_version: 2103.01030v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.01030 · pith_short_12: WWLPSYMBTYSL · pith_short_16: WWLPSYMBTYSL5KPY · pith_short_8: WWLPSYMB

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WWLPSYMBTYSL5KPYDZ2ADX7UWF \
  | 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: b596f961819e24bea9f81e7401dff4b1571f30418df7adcec6aa966694878738

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3a5950835434c01d01a814651037534f97db5ae7d17073f4d6bc7e488da8822",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-25T16:51:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3e4f3d6155e42f2c5df004c92a5ae815e50a65b8e1fc6f57dfed1dec96ffa3b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.01030",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}