Pith Number

pith:XUYQLWL2

pith:2017:XUYQLWL2DABS37BXMGHUQNCY3K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Convergence of Langevin MCMC in KL-divergence

Peter Bartlett, Xiang Cheng

arxiv:1705.09048 v2 · 2017-05-25 · stat.ML

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XUYQLWL2DABS37BXMGHUQNCY3K}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T00:31:35.927319Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd3105d97a18032dfc37618f483458da80cb96005a63b4915697313646f3d342

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09048 · arxiv_version: 1705.09048v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09048 · pith_short_12: XUYQLWL2DABS · pith_short_16: XUYQLWL2DABS37BX · pith_short_8: XUYQLWL2

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/XUYQLWL2DABS37BXMGHUQNCY3K \
  | 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: bd3105d97a18032dfc37618f483458da80cb96005a63b4915697313646f3d342

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "26b504fe64dd3fd3b85abe5962a61f03bb9afbb8d01acde3327c7b5a1415ccb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-25T05:08:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2dca2e161a14f9de4647be96b08a45d11293413eff73ff2d8e5c1a6e91588cc6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}