Pith Number

pith:3NGL2HVN

pith:2017:3NGL2HVN7JLXUXU57OXNKDYKGX

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Truncated Variational Sampling for "Black Box" Optimization of Generative Models

Georgios Exarchakis, J\"org L\"ucke, Zhenwen Dai

arxiv:1712.08104 v2 · 2017-12-21 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3NGL2HVN7JLXUXU57OXNKDYKGX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:44.288980Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db4cbd1eadfa577a5e9dfbaed50f0a35ef76f90bfde4db6eccfabc29a486b77c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08104 · arxiv_version: 1712.08104v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08104 · pith_short_12: 3NGL2HVN7JLX · pith_short_16: 3NGL2HVN7JLXUXU5 · pith_short_8: 3NGL2HVN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3NGL2HVN7JLXUXU57OXNKDYKGX \
  | 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: db4cbd1eadfa577a5e9dfbaed50f0a35ef76f90bfde4db6eccfabc29a486b77c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2822d6ece1f96f1b7d8eb49cbb9088f6b3ba713f5090ccb8dc47e19fa01fa503",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-21T17:38:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9964ecc7724d493ed177d13d0a598616bb2a6996d41b57ace01afbcca207ffa0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08104",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}