Pith Number

pith:3DJ6FDFU

pith:2021:3DJ6FDFUENY5XZAWMPBVXCSNRW

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Automatic variational inference with cascading flows

Gianluigi Silvestri, Luca Ambrogioni, Marcel van Gerven

arxiv:2102.04801 v1 · 2021-02-09 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3DJ6FDFUENY5XZAWMPBVXCSNRW}

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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	2026-07-05T02:14:04.936914Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d8d3e28cb42371dbe41663c35b8a4d8d904514d09428640b142504111ce5569d

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.04801 · arxiv_version: 2102.04801v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.04801 · pith_short_12: 3DJ6FDFUENY5 · pith_short_16: 3DJ6FDFUENY5XZAW · pith_short_8: 3DJ6FDFU

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/3DJ6FDFUENY5XZAWMPBVXCSNRW \
  | 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: d8d3e28cb42371dbe41663c35b8a4d8d904514d09428640b142504111ce5569d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83d796189e86fb995181e1887f06ec28cd7db99c32cb557bc6be915060abe8f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-09T12:44:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "098726bc8841d3715f5507e3093df2aa37c22459de050bcac41f4a4065490dd9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.04801",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}