Pith Number

pith:C4Y36VNK

pith:2023:C4Y36VNK74DWOX5MAH2SAUGW2N

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Mixed Variational Flows for Discrete Variables

Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, Gian Carlo Diluvi, Trevor Campbell

arxiv:2308.15613 v3 · 2023-08-29 · stat.CO · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C4Y36VNK74DWOX5MAH2SAUGW2N}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T07:49:13.515774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1731bf55aaff07675fac01f52050d6d354f8dee70079e0deca3fa66b00ad170f

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.15613 · arxiv_version: 2308.15613v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.15613 · pith_short_12: C4Y36VNK74DW · pith_short_16: C4Y36VNK74DWOX5M · pith_short_8: C4Y36VNK

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/C4Y36VNK74DWOX5MAH2SAUGW2N \
  | 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: 1731bf55aaff07675fac01f52050d6d354f8dee70079e0deca3fa66b00ad170f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04a4797d9670d0729a34075835b772ab1694126ad94d31b90d8de0d4ecfe5325",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-29T20:13:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "391d7130d3e9646123c79851f58b55144a11edb797936b1bfbb2407fad45b3c6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.15613",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}