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pith:XKFGHQRQ

pith:2019:XKFGHQRQ5Y2XHJPORJ4GZ3T2C7

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Undirected Graphical Models as Approximate Posteriors

Arash Vahdat, Evgeny Andriyash, William G. Macready

arxiv:1901.03440 v2 · 2019-01-11 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:08:22.659126Z
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Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

ba8a63c230ee3573a5ee8a786cee7a17c47d1f70eb7225b71b655cd0d52cb4dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.03440 · arxiv_version: 1901.03440v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.03440 · pith_short_12: XKFGHQRQ5Y2X · pith_short_16: XKFGHQRQ5Y2XHJPO · pith_short_8: XKFGHQRQ

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XKFGHQRQ5Y2XHJPORJ4GZ3T2C7 \
  | 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: ba8a63c230ee3573a5ee8a786cee7a17c47d1f70eb7225b71b655cd0d52cb4dc

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-11T00:32:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f53145a367b68f3145389056f7482629bcd5a2a6de68e32836b6d8db41d708b9"
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  }
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