Pith Number

pith:Q726V26V

pith:2017:Q726V26VNT5VZYTUNFZRORAJ2Q

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Importance Sampled Stochastic Optimization for Variational Inference

Arto Klami, Joseph Sakaya

arxiv:1704.05786 v2 · 2017-04-19 · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:40:28.446644Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87f5eaebd56cfb5ce2746973174409d42e560b90affd09440af5364ed12891fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.05786 · arxiv_version: 1704.05786v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.05786 · pith_short_12: Q726V26VNT5V · pith_short_16: Q726V26VNT5VZYTU · pith_short_8: Q726V26V

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Q726V26VNT5VZYTUNFZRORAJ2Q \
  | 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: 87f5eaebd56cfb5ce2746973174409d42e560b90affd09440af5364ed12891fe

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-19T15:51:46Z",
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