Pith Number

pith:7UYPZP6H

pith:2014:7UYPZP6HTLDGJ4ZKOJU3C7HN7H

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Variational Bayes for Merging Noisy Databases

Rebecca C. Steorts, Tamara Broderick

arxiv:1410.4792 v1 · 2014-10-17 · stat.ME · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7UYPZP6HTLDGJ4ZKOJU3C7HN7H}

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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	2026-05-18T02:39:54.722221Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fd30fcbfc79ac664f32a7269b17cedf9fb2b0eaae56cc0c7ad9447f35da16fd4

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.4792 · arxiv_version: 1410.4792v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.4792 · pith_short_12: 7UYPZP6HTLDG · pith_short_16: 7UYPZP6HTLDGJ4ZK · pith_short_8: 7UYPZP6H

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/7UYPZP6HTLDGJ4ZKOJU3C7HN7H \
  | 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: fd30fcbfc79ac664f32a7269b17cedf9fb2b0eaae56cc0c7ad9447f35da16fd4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ed63dedbbed5fca586abe89b33e6d22e97d4e59e22eb32d28279914f18be09f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-17T16:46:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b8c97fce321bbfb3a819168af3f22fa798ed191fcb9f498dbc149a235f2e8d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.4792",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}