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pith:3R5U2LRH

pith:2017:3R5U2LRH5RGOQKLOSTXUNYUIVS

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Symmetric Variational Autoencoder and Connections to Adversarial Learning

Chunyuan Li, Lawrence Carin, Liqun Chen, Qinliang su, Shuyang Dai, Yunchen Pu

arxiv:1709.01846 v2 · 2017-09-06 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:32:25.450001Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc7b4d2e27ec4ce8296e94ef46e288ac9560868be2c481f7920486afd8d06fea

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.01846 · arxiv_version: 1709.01846v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.01846 · pith_short_12: 3R5U2LRH5RGO · pith_short_16: 3R5U2LRH5RGOQKLO · pith_short_8: 3R5U2LRH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3R5U2LRH5RGOQKLOSTXUNYUIVS \
  | 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: dc7b4d2e27ec4ce8296e94ef46e288ac9560868be2c481f7920486afd8d06fea

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-06T14:48:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "411b2755e6ea81f4e7fe723aaae7e4bdcef70c7cd51c795e14421ccd17a685fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}