Pith Number

pith:BNMFSQSI

pith:2012:BNMFSQSI7HNPOXE53UD5JYZWL3

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A Generative Process for Sampling Contractive Auto-Encoders

Pascal Vincent (Universite de Montreal), Salah Rifai (Universite de Montreal), Yann Dauphin (Universite de Montreal), Yoshua Bengio (Universite de Montreal)

arxiv:1206.6434 v1 · 2012-06-27 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNMFSQSI7HNPOXE53UD5JYZWL3}

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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	2026-05-18T03:52:14.169384Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b58594248f9daf75c9ddd07d4e3365ec27b83783679c7d3eb78d6c4d881ea7a

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.6434 · arxiv_version: 1206.6434v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.6434 · pith_short_12: BNMFSQSI7HNP · pith_short_16: BNMFSQSI7HNPOXE5 · pith_short_8: BNMFSQSI

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/BNMFSQSI7HNPOXE53UD5JYZWL3 \
  | 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: 0b58594248f9daf75c9ddd07d4e3365ec27b83783679c7d3eb78d6c4d881ea7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b217775b9e1be6572628497afd40cadf028e28259e9d36707107b96e8aa7111e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-27T19:59:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44a1286a5b7ae04559dd3940d9798265f4aa69880b8ebb0d7197fb64b38c3ac6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.6434",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}