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pith:3ELMBIXY

pith:2018:3ELMBIXYV55XN26KL6ZHUIACJW

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The LORACs prior for VAEs: Letting the Trees Speak for the Data

Matthew D. Hoffman, Matthew J. Johnson, Sharad Vikram

arxiv:1810.06891 v1 · 2018-10-16 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:11.214664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d916c0a2f8af7b76ebca5fb27a20024d95bea902e0a0b2c33d0c16161cee6f8e

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.06891 · arxiv_version: 1810.06891v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.06891 · pith_short_12: 3ELMBIXYV55X · pith_short_16: 3ELMBIXYV55XN26K · pith_short_8: 3ELMBIXY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3ELMBIXYV55XN26KL6ZHUIACJW \
  | 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: d916c0a2f8af7b76ebca5fb27a20024d95bea902e0a0b2c33d0c16161cee6f8e

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-16T09:24:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39fb021b581d17b20839e383b117451e0985f43ab1a48144dd5d5867f83288c0"
  },
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  }
}