Pith Number

pith:44LB2JDR

pith:2018:44LB2JDRQTH3GLNRGDUKDKAZZV

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Improving Explorability in Variational Inference with Annealed Variational Objectives

Aaron Courville, Alexandre Lacoste, Chin-Wei Huang, Shawn Tan

arxiv:1809.01818 v3 · 2018-09-06 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{44LB2JDRQTH3GLNRGDUKDKAZZV}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:15.725252Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7161d247184cfb32db130e8a1a819cd593ac93b1436480f015208f94875a6d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.01818 · arxiv_version: 1809.01818v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.01818 · pith_short_12: 44LB2JDRQTH3 · pith_short_16: 44LB2JDRQTH3GLNR · pith_short_8: 44LB2JDR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/44LB2JDRQTH3GLNRGDUKDKAZZV \
  | 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: e7161d247184cfb32db130e8a1a819cd593ac93b1436480f015208f94875a6d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "148104125c532bd45417ca917587db4655aabcad09514528711b6323bb15d7de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-06T04:41:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17e296b5136e1e1c646f768cb7efc3f43a6aa3231c3b13f8b2a5ddfdac4877ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.01818",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}