Pith Number

pith:QOP7ZUYI

pith:2026:QOP7ZUYI7ORDLKN6IFJES5GZTF

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Variational Inference via Entropic Transport Descent

Akash Ratheesh, Evangelos Theodorou, Vincent Pacelli

arxiv:2606.25265 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QOP7ZUYI7ORDLKN6IFJES5GZTF}

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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	2026-06-25T00:18:22.468475Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

839ffcd308fba235a9be41524974d9996a4f0349adcd234087d766ffd8d12778

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.25265 · arxiv_version: 2606.25265v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.25265 · pith_short_12: QOP7ZUYI7ORD · pith_short_16: QOP7ZUYI7ORDLKN6 · pith_short_8: QOP7ZUYI

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/QOP7ZUYI7ORDLKN6IFJES5GZTF \
  | 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: 839ffcd308fba235a9be41524974d9996a4f0349adcd234087d766ffd8d12778

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69386f6ad9028618c74120994a461746c7d8149a8124dfdea8a78c825a4b5751",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T01:02:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40498b2e09b7ffb96aad1d820a5ac3e2ddf123f1bfd78b676c5e221f7faf7fe2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.25265",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}