Pith Number

pith:6ZSJCAQF

pith:2016:6ZSJCAQFE4CWA3HAWS4TXN4QWF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Improved generator objectives for GANs

Alexander A. Alemi, Anelia Angelova, Ben Poole, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

arxiv:1612.02780 v1 · 2016-12-08 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ZSJCAQFE4CWA3HAWS4TXN4QWF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:29.143364Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f6649102052705606ce0b4b93bb790b15b2c7c393e6518b5e214319da62164ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.02780 · arxiv_version: 1612.02780v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.02780 · pith_short_12: 6ZSJCAQFE4CW · pith_short_16: 6ZSJCAQFE4CWA3HA · pith_short_8: 6ZSJCAQF

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/6ZSJCAQFE4CWA3HAWS4TXN4QWF \
  | 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: f6649102052705606ce0b4b93bb790b15b2c7c393e6518b5e214319da62164ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40472806d434fde23a6892fe48e7ca02919b74a2385afbabf05d59ac5e727739",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-08T19:32:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "afab4261f6153c1874d87157e468e3354b3b043b79b40a42f720175bc3aa381d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.02780",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}