Pith Number

pith:DOU3R64C

pith:2017:DOU3R64CN4RFHISOEA2MBSDCJI

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Neural Variational Inference and Learning in Undirected Graphical Models

Stefano Ermon, Volodymyr Kuleshov

arxiv:1711.02679 v2 · 2017-11-07 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{DOU3R64CN4RFHISOEA2MBSDCJI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:21.733071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1ba9b8fb826f2253a24e2034c0c8624a305f117f51a19fbacf2fd9960807adc8

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.02679 · arxiv_version: 1711.02679v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.02679 · pith_short_12: DOU3R64CN4RF · pith_short_16: DOU3R64CN4RFHISO · pith_short_8: DOU3R64C

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DOU3R64CN4RFHISOEA2MBSDCJI \
  | 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: 1ba9b8fb826f2253a24e2034c0c8624a305f117f51a19fbacf2fd9960807adc8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4fb7cc8f05413bf69398645223a20343906846466768dd2f45dcf8d80b06cb62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-07T19:00:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5f741a0395c87ef7990fc1b30c4f124a347a3fceeb2c9c6758231ab7c51f98fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.02679",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}