Pith Number

pith:4OI6Q3EB

pith:2017:4OI6Q3EBAFE7LWACJHZZBYXFRL

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Text Generation Based on Generative Adversarial Nets with Latent Variable

Heng Wang, Tao Wan, Zengchang Qin

arxiv:1712.00170 v2 · 2017-12-01 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4OI6Q3EBAFE7LWACJHZZBYXFRL}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:01:23.534806Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e391e86c810149f5d80249f390e2e58ad3bc3d6e0a338573f81ebc061a8a261f

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00170 · arxiv_version: 1712.00170v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00170 · pith_short_12: 4OI6Q3EBAFE7 · pith_short_16: 4OI6Q3EBAFE7LWAC · pith_short_8: 4OI6Q3EB

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/4OI6Q3EBAFE7LWACJHZZBYXFRL \
  | 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: e391e86c810149f5d80249f390e2e58ad3bc3d6e0a338573f81ebc061a8a261f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "05c829e6413993af90f0612be0e50ea38dcd4f79d1a61c9a83492d3fe3759657",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-01T03:14:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fe471adab6d8e1a8b7cbd58b701f8d16bdf13ce8ede86828d6f80b7229a82c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00170",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}