Pith Number

pith:BSS4CBFZ

pith:2018:BSS4CBFZEQTNIMSOLMRU4LQX6D

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Item Recommendation with Variational Autoencoders and Heterogenous Priors

Ananth Ravi Narayan, Da Tang, Giannis Karamanolakis, Jie Yuan, Kevin Raji Cherian, Tony Jebara

arxiv:1807.06651 v2 · 2018-07-17 · stat.ML · cs.IR · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BSS4CBFZEQTNIMSOLMRU4LQX6D}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:55.660225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ca5c104b92426d4324e5b234e2e17f0cff946e2aeb7cfd950071d88d54b3b50

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06651 · arxiv_version: 1807.06651v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06651 · pith_short_12: BSS4CBFZEQTN · pith_short_16: BSS4CBFZEQTNIMSO · pith_short_8: BSS4CBFZ

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/BSS4CBFZEQTNIMSOLMRU4LQX6D \
  | 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: 0ca5c104b92426d4324e5b234e2e17f0cff946e2aeb7cfd950071d88d54b3b50

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e95300cd0764a9ab9aef57c391f437b4b541760d595bba472b704e32d09f857",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-17T20:14:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bcad96a50445eb6e38050b026f5c5f092ef83e23c9af2dfc28e5ffdadfc768f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06651",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}