Pith Number

pith:VHE7LBBG

pith:2018:VHE7LBBGKQWXYSUVW3KYLZXE7B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Inference as an alternative to MCMC for parameter estimation and model selection

Anirudh Jain, Geetakrishnasai Gunapati, P.K. Srijith, Shantanu Desai

arxiv:1803.06473 v4 · 2018-03-17 · astro-ph.IM · hep-ex · physics.data-an

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHE7LBBGKQWXYSUVW3KYLZXE7B}

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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	2026-07-05T03:51:02.714486Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9c9f58426542d7c4a95b6d585e6e4f8459f2039cabdf654a56d9e65307c57db

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.06473 · arxiv_version: 1803.06473v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.06473 · pith_short_12: VHE7LBBGKQWX · pith_short_16: VHE7LBBGKQWXYSUV · pith_short_8: VHE7LBBG

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/VHE7LBBGKQWXYSUVW3KYLZXE7B \
  | 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: a9c9f58426542d7c4a95b6d585e6e4f8459f2039cabdf654a56d9e65307c57db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3527f588d82b3fa521966824c6de42c79e63f706fb58d599376a28197f4efdfb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex",
      "physics.data-an"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-17T06:28:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6cf9cf48dbe6cfe873419f293670b48be4d5f84c9fc80a85a2c6406355520f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.06473",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}