Pith Number

pith:XNAU2YXZ

pith:2024:XNAU2YXZR32YC5KATT76WF2NRR

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Beyond ELBOs: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Variational Methods for Sampling

Denis Blessing, Francisco Vargas, Gerhard Neumann, Johannes Esslinger, Xiaogang Jia

arxiv:2406.07423 v1 · 2024-06-11 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:30:23.433657Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb414d62f98ef58175409cffeb174d8c6ed48cd95d556521761e4ae82c134c54

Aliases

arxiv: 2406.07423 · arxiv_version: 2406.07423v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.07423 · pith_short_12: XNAU2YXZR32Y · pith_short_16: XNAU2YXZR32YC5KA · pith_short_8: XNAU2YXZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XNAU2YXZR32YC5KATT76WF2NRR \
  | 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: bb414d62f98ef58175409cffeb174d8c6ed48cd95d556521761e4ae82c134c54

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "952d05ce4e42a55e482291ecd58721aa2ca7cd496058ef69817811a49a3e2bdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-11T16:23:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b83bf601007e8dda399557524fb6f17c45baafc0a5a7dba23eafc16e67750f84"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2406.07423",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}