Pith Number

pith:Z2S6FGJ7

pith:2016:Z2S6FGJ7XZGYIOCOJZ36LWW3R6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

R\'enyi Divergence Variational Inference

Richard E. Turner, Yingzhen Li

arxiv:1602.02311 v3 · 2016-02-06 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z2S6FGJ7XZGYIOCOJZ36LWW3R6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:01:00.344155Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cea5e2993fbe4d84384e4e77e5dadb8f95d2600a3f363f11b663e6689158f232

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.02311 · arxiv_version: 1602.02311v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.02311 · pith_short_12: Z2S6FGJ7XZGY · pith_short_16: Z2S6FGJ7XZGYIOCO · pith_short_8: Z2S6FGJ7

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/Z2S6FGJ7XZGYIOCOJZ36LWW3R6 \
  | 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: cea5e2993fbe4d84384e4e77e5dadb8f95d2600a3f363f11b663e6689158f232

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1aa5d711c9227b9bd34e026aa528411658651e35cf5e133696da7577e9728ea2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-06T21:35:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17b9cd78509108d3fb8ce9c84ab6c288334858e764365458ef9b23c3d3fc56c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.02311",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}