Pith Number

pith:G4H2SLFP

pith:2017:G4H2SLFP4WN4QN3BPTN4B3U27C

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A Geometric Variational Approach to Bayesian Inference

Abhijoy Saha, Karthik Bharath, Sebastian Kurtek

arxiv:1707.09714 v2 · 2017-07-31 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{G4H2SLFP4WN4QN3BPTN4B3U27C}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:50:02.765162Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

370fa92cafe59bc837617cdbc0ee9af8be765e56e967f91d57b221ca130317b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.09714 · arxiv_version: 1707.09714v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.09714 · pith_short_12: G4H2SLFP4WN4 · pith_short_16: G4H2SLFP4WN4QN3B · pith_short_8: G4H2SLFP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G4H2SLFP4WN4QN3BPTN4B3U27C \
  | 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: 370fa92cafe59bc837617cdbc0ee9af8be765e56e967f91d57b221ca130317b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7260c8d6b4e8b44e801be6edbf138f284b202b55de4bfc4f29b8dd10f2bba0e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-31T03:59:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db8868b8f384d812fd6935137d60ebdc38a1dac2307746eeee1c421bbb3b2fec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.09714",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}