Pith Number

pith:XTMQCLVE

pith:2013:XTMQCLVE7X4UMESPYRRTWISJKQ

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A Variational Approximation for Bayesian Networks with Discrete and Continuous Latent Variables

Kevin Murphy

arxiv:1301.6724 v1 · 2013-01-23 · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XTMQCLVE7X4UMESPYRRTWISJKQ}

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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	2026-05-18T03:35:12.708565Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bcd9012ea4fdf946124fc4633b2249540ece9a11be4e3cf18b6926c130c154c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.6724 · arxiv_version: 1301.6724v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.6724 · pith_short_12: XTMQCLVE7X4U · pith_short_16: XTMQCLVE7X4UMESP · pith_short_8: XTMQCLVE

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/XTMQCLVE7X4UMESPYRRTWISJKQ \
  | 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: bcd9012ea4fdf946124fc4633b2249540ece9a11be4e3cf18b6926c130c154c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63865c5e72a8ff38cf4f74870b36ddffd98cfab0455ca2131dc27a656de7f721",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-23T15:59:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b17cda768ba2874954e3b0823ca9679715c6a563fa7513aecd69b7eefe51e9e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.6724",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}