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pith:DGAHLVK2

pith:2016:DGAHLVK2ZXUEK2O5T4HNJUIB55

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Note on the equivalence of hierarchical variational models and auxiliary deep generative models

Niko Br\"ummer

arxiv:1603.02443 v2 · 2016-03-08 · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:19:20.038667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

198075d55acde84569dd9f0ed4d101ef67aa12e93b80cb0de180aaaea9f8ce85

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.02443 · arxiv_version: 1603.02443v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.02443 · pith_short_12: DGAHLVK2ZXUE · pith_short_16: DGAHLVK2ZXUEK2O5 · pith_short_8: DGAHLVK2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DGAHLVK2ZXUEK2O5T4HNJUIB55 \
  | 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: 198075d55acde84569dd9f0ed4d101ef67aa12e93b80cb0de180aaaea9f8ce85

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "549e81e24e788a89496a1c4a084864c44b7cc4262d02cd84ed9889ed6f20be11",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-08T09:46:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a64419ae47b27f95b70336279f8c5ba66ba40d6be182cf0630e77faa93f3ff6f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.02443",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}