Pith Number

pith:B6UOF6DN

pith:2018:B6UOF6DNNE746HC6MDAHBKG5TH

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f-VAEs: Improve VAEs with Conditional Flows

Guang Wu, Jianlin Su

arxiv:1809.05861 v1 · 2018-09-16 · cs.LG · cs.CV · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B6UOF6DNNE746HC6MDAHBKG5TH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:36.289075Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fa8e2f86d693fcf1c5e60c070a8dd99ce80e0cd1c26df24518766734a91ceaa

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.05861 · arxiv_version: 1809.05861v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.05861 · pith_short_12: B6UOF6DNNE74 · pith_short_16: B6UOF6DNNE746HC6 · pith_short_8: B6UOF6DN

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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/B6UOF6DNNE746HC6MDAHBKG5TH \
  | 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: 0fa8e2f86d693fcf1c5e60c070a8dd99ce80e0cd1c26df24518766734a91ceaa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f45e6e6c3de161ec1d6c897672d19cc989a9f25abe635e7711e2a3735d7ae25a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-16T12:23:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c50866a00e2d28365c80856e9692fa8863fa854bea178328b8687acc70db072"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.05861",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}