Pith Number

pith:5VVO6OPE

pith:2017:5VVO6OPEDW335PPK7RZRCY2S5W

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Learnable Explicit Density for Continuous Latent Space and Variational Inference

Aaron Courville, Ahmed Touati, Chin-Wei Huang, Laurent Charlin, Laurent Dinh, Michal Drozdzal, Mohammad Havaei

arxiv:1710.02248 v1 · 2017-10-06 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VVO6OPEDW335PPK7RZRCY2S5W}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:33:34.027067Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed6aef39e41db7bebdeafc73116352ed9ca7182160142da0884cad43904cfc0b

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.02248 · arxiv_version: 1710.02248v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.02248 · pith_short_12: 5VVO6OPEDW33 · pith_short_16: 5VVO6OPEDW335PPK · pith_short_8: 5VVO6OPE

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/5VVO6OPEDW335PPK7RZRCY2S5W \
  | 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: ed6aef39e41db7bebdeafc73116352ed9ca7182160142da0884cad43904cfc0b

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe18200d734cf5fa5ab5cee99bab976077d0c912f65d638fef62f28f4e4b0753",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-06T00:51:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5bb1556ced2fa9e99f44f15c2906ceb10db89bb52e5291b681997ec24804ac75"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.02248",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}