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pith:AGTTSW2V

pith:2019:AGTTSW2VS7TXGEWYS2GCBV7Q6B

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Practical Lossless Compression with Latent Variables using Bits Back Coding

David Barber, James Townsend, Tom Bird

arxiv:1901.04866 v1 · 2019-01-15 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.CO · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AGTTSW2VS7TXGEWYS2GCBV7Q6B}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:56:21.480051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01a7395b5597e77312d8968c20d7f0f0436a91b17ce31da26d0e350c3612c1bb

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.04866 · arxiv_version: 1901.04866v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.04866 · pith_short_12: AGTTSW2VS7TX · pith_short_16: AGTTSW2VS7TXGEWY · pith_short_8: AGTTSW2V

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AGTTSW2VS7TXGEWYS2GCBV7Q6B \
  | 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: 01a7395b5597e77312d8968c20d7f0f0436a91b17ce31da26d0e350c3612c1bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de100ade3674a45da79d3d65e24ea906e2b172347e5669d8a1b7c1d8e7259ef2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-15T14:45:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e182cd291faf20f4b788e4e3d96153b248892b7383065e0fdccaaa20feffc67b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.04866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}