Pith Number

pith:YV6KEM4R

pith:2019:YV6KEM4RN43ZKCJ32IFTJYBUJI

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A Contrastive Divergence for Combining Variational Inference and MCMC

Francisco J. R. Ruiz, Michalis K. Titsias

arxiv:1905.04062 v2 · 2019-05-10 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YV6KEM4RN43ZKCJ32IFTJYBUJI}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:53.951446Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c57ca233916f3795093bd20b34e0344a24ddce89e0989b09c414c37c2d833712

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.04062 · arxiv_version: 1905.04062v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.04062 · pith_short_12: YV6KEM4RN43Z · pith_short_16: YV6KEM4RN43ZKCJ3 · pith_short_8: YV6KEM4R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YV6KEM4RN43ZKCJ32IFTJYBUJI \
  | 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: c57ca233916f3795093bd20b34e0344a24ddce89e0989b09c414c37c2d833712

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3502e829fca98d969562baa3671c3d8a5885e07e5916be0b9709207b5df9029",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-10T10:45:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25edf4b12aa4ce154ad2ebe9090c56c024bc56172d300e31a95d23734e7b867e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.04062",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}