Pith Number

pith:ATU7I26T

pith:2018:ATU7I26TMLTB6JCSAOP7XBZZZO

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Tighter Variational Bounds are Not Necessarily Better

Adam R. Kosiorek, Chris J. Maddison, Frank Wood, Maximilian Igl, Tom Rainforth, Tuan Anh Le, Yee Whye Teh

arxiv:1802.04537 v3 · 2018-02-13 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ATU7I26TMLTB6JCSAOP7XBZZZO}

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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	2026-05-17T23:51:59.082365Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

04e9f46bd362e61f2452039ffb8739cbb5a08c93377ccaa9a8d7ab6839b32dfd

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.04537 · arxiv_version: 1802.04537v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.04537 · pith_short_12: ATU7I26TMLTB · pith_short_16: ATU7I26TMLTB6JCS · pith_short_8: ATU7I26T

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/ATU7I26TMLTB6JCSAOP7XBZZZO \
  | 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: 04e9f46bd362e61f2452039ffb8739cbb5a08c93377ccaa9a8d7ab6839b32dfd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1522295b966600ccca19636792720812a5dd96691e99bc175ca0677ec572209",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-13T10:17:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e20ded65752ad77a9999b45c243f22e41db137b452de61f05e85894d159918ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.04537",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}