Pith Number

pith:YOF3QM6H

pith:2022:YOF3QM6H6KTEGEPPFXRYA6EVV2

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Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better. A Research Report on Implementation, Ablation Study, and Extensions

Amine M'Charrak, Madhu Vankadari, Sangyun Shin, V\'it R\r{u}\v{z}i\v{c}ka

arxiv:2209.11875 v1 · 2022-09-23 · stat.ML · cs.LG · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YOF3QM6H6KTEGEPPFXRYA6EVV2}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T05:00:29.121752Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c38bb833c7f2a64311ef2de3807895aeb7f33bc67df8a741a84a425a804e811f

Aliases

arxiv: 2209.11875 · arxiv_version: 2209.11875v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2209.11875 · pith_short_12: YOF3QM6H6KTE · pith_short_16: YOF3QM6H6KTEGEPP · pith_short_8: YOF3QM6H

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/YOF3QM6H6KTEGEPPFXRYA6EVV2 \
  | 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: c38bb833c7f2a64311ef2de3807895aeb7f33bc67df8a741a84a425a804e811f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8237d884d47c7ab077338da91691a4cb5b6b09a352e87eb89213c20313d204ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2022-09-23T21:56:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42cd79439486340eeac18767c27243d321e53fc1c1c2c8afbb964aff2415103f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2209.11875",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}