Pith Number

pith:5VKBAOVB

pith:2017:5VKBAOVBRCFB4SXXF7SNMM3B3U

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VAE Learning via Stein Variational Gradient Descent

Chunyuan Li, Lawrence Carin, Ricardo Henao, Shaobo Han, Yunchen Pu, Zhe Gan

arxiv:1704.05155 v3 · 2017-04-18 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VKBAOVBRCFB4SXXF7SNMM3B3U}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:30:22.229857Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed54103aa1888a1e4af72fe4d63361dd3eedfdf7f9fc230814ffcfe96b8d0bd0

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.05155 · arxiv_version: 1704.05155v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.05155 · pith_short_12: 5VKBAOVBRCFB · pith_short_16: 5VKBAOVBRCFB4SXX · pith_short_8: 5VKBAOVB

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/5VKBAOVBRCFB4SXXF7SNMM3B3U \
  | 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: ed54103aa1888a1e4af72fe4d63361dd3eedfdf7f9fc230814ffcfe96b8d0bd0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db65e13b4bbd85e010208cbe945812dac1b763ad879238039147b30e62294568",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-18T00:08:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77eb339d18a50a371f9c3e3fa43ca858eb5957f7d30688946b5573eccffc84f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.05155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}