Pith Number

pith:EGBH3DWT

pith:2017:EGBH3DWTHGZJWDVCEGAC6ATOKG

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Multi-Stage Variational Auto-Encoders for Coarse-to-Fine Image Generation

Hongyang Gao, Lei Cai, Shuiwang Ji

arxiv:1705.07202 v1 · 2017-05-19 · cs.CV · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EGBH3DWTHGZJWDVCEGAC6ATOKG}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:06.321377Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

21827d8ed339b29b0ea221802f026e51aca6591b5b363fb48b0a6a46df5f0771

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.07202 · arxiv_version: 1705.07202v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.07202 · pith_short_12: EGBH3DWTHGZJ · pith_short_16: EGBH3DWTHGZJWDVC · pith_short_8: EGBH3DWT

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/EGBH3DWTHGZJWDVCEGAC6ATOKG \
  | 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: 21827d8ed339b29b0ea221802f026e51aca6591b5b363fb48b0a6a46df5f0771

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eda196c9c3e203d41bb1c282a464474c709b2938da419305786c42ed8e856319",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-19T21:51:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "60775a94b5ebb419b8e87a7dce59a6ca9f05662e5795085ed25fc1f741e957c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.07202",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}