Pith Number

pith:X7YVETC2

pith:2018:X7YVETC2NMBNFT47FOGRF2EGLU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo

Luigi Acerbi

arxiv:1810.05558 v2 · 2018-10-12 · stat.ML · cs.LG · q-bio.NC · q-bio.QM

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X7YVETC2NMBNFT47FOGRF2EGLU}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-17T23:59:38.153107Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bff1524c5a6b02d2cf9f2b8d12e8865d019da94984ee8f65c4e4928b64094ca1

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.05558 · arxiv_version: 1810.05558v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.05558 · pith_short_12: X7YVETC2NMBN · pith_short_16: X7YVETC2NMBNFT47 · pith_short_8: X7YVETC2

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/X7YVETC2NMBNFT47FOGRF2EGLU \
  | 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: bff1524c5a6b02d2cf9f2b8d12e8865d019da94984ee8f65c4e4928b64094ca1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6ef9ed536f4c44ad20e3f12672faf16888c999a029b624782a12e5a04d8aa886",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "q-bio.NC",
      "q-bio.QM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-12T14:50:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5fb175e1250a9f1c8c4ed030e29513a9daddaa8a7cb61724e25e3283120d7dec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.05558",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}