Pith Number

pith:YRS2MVZC

pith:2021:YRS2MVZCSCST5KTEYMNPOORDMI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Inference with Holder Bounds

Chenyang Tao, Danni Lu, Junya Chen, Ke Bai, Lawrence Carin, Zidi Xiu

arxiv:2111.02947 v2 · 2021-11-04 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YRS2MVZCSCST5KTEYMNPOORDMI}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T03:31:31.952148Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c465a6572290a53eaa64c31af73a23623432a29b12a501ca50b126637664d731

Aliases

arxiv: 2111.02947 · arxiv_version: 2111.02947v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.02947 · pith_short_12: YRS2MVZCSCST · pith_short_16: YRS2MVZCSCST5KTE · pith_short_8: YRS2MVZC

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/YRS2MVZCSCST5KTEYMNPOORDMI \
  | 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: c465a6572290a53eaa64c31af73a23623432a29b12a501ca50b126637664d731

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a9633c8a1f674362ae41d21e24cb7eac3b27a4dba65977a5c150ab48916d2c46",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-11-04T15:35:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "456f292b085eba22ff8692f05918ca9d4de7a2d1215d26c072de3be0edaefca9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2111.02947",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}