Pith Number

pith:4UOLLLVX

pith:2019:4UOLLLVX6HO4IS52ISA3MKTLZI

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On Variational Bounds of Mutual Information

Aaron van den Oord, Alexander A. Alemi, Ben Poole, George Tucker, Sherjil Ozair

arxiv:1905.06922 v1 · 2019-05-16 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4UOLLLVX6HO4IS52ISA3MKTLZI}

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4 Citations 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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:45:58.524566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e51cb5aeb7f1ddc44bba4481b62a6bca1ded80ef30fff449ad5c6cb1cdcb3e3a

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.06922 · arxiv_version: 1905.06922v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.06922 · pith_short_12: 4UOLLLVX6HO4 · pith_short_16: 4UOLLLVX6HO4IS52 · pith_short_8: 4UOLLLVX

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/4UOLLLVX6HO4IS52ISA3MKTLZI \
  | 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: e51cb5aeb7f1ddc44bba4481b62a6bca1ded80ef30fff449ad5c6cb1cdcb3e3a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4140f5432aa3bcaaace1197143ad281223e7d455a43200c94e1953db22ca9c9b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-16T17:31:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "21937672b9b9b11de93dd98e3442c9862c00164e2d27939ec3992b84f4eb7182"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.06922",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}