Pith Number

pith:YVOV4QHT

pith:2012:YVOV4QHTAUCXITPE4CDFPP6JUS

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Optimization of Structured Mean Field Objectives

Alexandre Bouchard-Cote, Michael I. Jordan

arxiv:1205.2658 v1 · 2012-05-09 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YVOV4QHTAUCXITPE4CDFPP6JUS}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:55:47.586025Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c55d5e40f30505744de4e08657bfc9a49cc375143d5702eac076ba2d489ecd61

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.2658 · arxiv_version: 1205.2658v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.2658 · pith_short_12: YVOV4QHTAUCX · pith_short_16: YVOV4QHTAUCXITPE · pith_short_8: YVOV4QHT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YVOV4QHTAUCXITPE4CDFPP6JUS \
  | 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: c55d5e40f30505744de4e08657bfc9a49cc375143d5702eac076ba2d489ecd61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97104fa78f296bf02a8fd54af87016f6f2800819a8c37826f30d2f81299b9302",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-09T14:51:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "75c97b6678b455876ff226540d4ae795ac865f60bfdd950227ff385e8813a4b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.2658",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}