Pith Number

pith:4GB5JKBI

pith:2018:4GB5JKBI7PVGLNSIRUT3RAFGLM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Taming VAEs

Danilo Jimenez Rezende, Fabio Viola

arxiv:1810.00597 v1 · 2018-10-01 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4GB5JKBI7PVGLNSIRUT3RAFGLM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:04:25.301394Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e183d4a828fbea65b6488d27b880a65b188afc65e4c65f30cbaf2d29ac83b3db

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.00597 · arxiv_version: 1810.00597v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.00597 · pith_short_12: 4GB5JKBI7PVG · pith_short_16: 4GB5JKBI7PVGLNSI · pith_short_8: 4GB5JKBI

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/4GB5JKBI7PVGLNSIRUT3RAFGLM \
  | 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: e183d4a828fbea65b6488d27b880a65b188afc65e4c65f30cbaf2d29ac83b3db

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80f7b3be0febdb17cfad107899e316a1b7f7ac601967cfbadc4d6fe2f75ba750",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-01T09:53:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8578f4be5c5116612917bd0c838976daf84942009a7f2877e1a0131b02505920"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.00597",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}