Pith Number

pith:B2Z6IVEK

pith:2017:B2Z6IVEKCTF6EUVEW2O53H6LXX

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A Universal Marginalizer for Amortized Inference in Generative Models

Adam Baker, Chris Hart, Chris Lucas, Iliyan Zarov, Konstantinos Gourgoulias, Laura Douglas, Maneesh Sahani, Saurabh Johri, Yura Perov

arxiv:1711.00695 v1 · 2017-11-02 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{B2Z6IVEKCTF6EUVEW2O53H6LXX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:29.779390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0eb3e4548a14cbe252a4b69ddd9fcbbdd6442d6c873285f0bafb19107e8a45a5

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00695 · arxiv_version: 1711.00695v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00695 · pith_short_12: B2Z6IVEKCTF6 · pith_short_16: B2Z6IVEKCTF6EUVE · pith_short_8: B2Z6IVEK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B2Z6IVEKCTF6EUVEW2O53H6LXX \
  | 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: 0eb3e4548a14cbe252a4b69ddd9fcbbdd6442d6c873285f0bafb19107e8a45a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f85ca244cb967b5fcbe4b08e3dfb05ed52d254fe33fbd687f8d65c7e613bbfeb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-02T11:40:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e6d233dd6ce6a07ef4c335c8898779185e122157ade8700a63bcccd7b489c95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00695",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}