Pith Number

pith:5VYRDMVI

pith:2017:5VYRDMVIQT5B3Q4DNRF3B7C7K2

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Nonparametric Inference for Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

Carl Henrik Ek, Erik Bodin, Iman Malik, Neill D. F. Campbell

arxiv:1712.06536 v1 · 2017-12-18 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VYRDMVIQT5B3Q4DNRF3B7C7K2}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:27:47.622089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed7111b2a884fa1dc3836c4bb0fc5f56aa6200f24522984990812397a4e58620

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06536 · arxiv_version: 1712.06536v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06536 · pith_short_12: 5VYRDMVIQT5B · pith_short_16: 5VYRDMVIQT5B3Q4D · pith_short_8: 5VYRDMVI

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5VYRDMVIQT5B3Q4DNRF3B7C7K2 \
  | 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: ed7111b2a884fa1dc3836c4bb0fc5f56aa6200f24522984990812397a4e58620

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f74cdf1d9d7141f9879f4868f175e875553830288f39d7343e6cbf71cf7ab35b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T17:22:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d2629d0793954970218430f267a624b06e40d95375aa2a1480ab2bb0c24c5eb7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}