Pith Number

pith:HRJ5QV7G

pith:2018:HRJ5QV7GPRSYQYMHKA6GNNPMSJ

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The Information Autoencoding Family: A Lagrangian Perspective on Latent Variable Generative Models

Jiaming Song, Shengjia Zhao, Stefano Ermon

arxiv:1806.06514 v2 · 2018-06-18 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:11:17.098033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c53d857e67c65886187503c66b5ec9248f27ffe0c7b709509e3f8fbe52b3144

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.06514 · arxiv_version: 1806.06514v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.06514 · pith_short_12: HRJ5QV7GPRSY · pith_short_16: HRJ5QV7GPRSYQYMH · pith_short_8: HRJ5QV7G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HRJ5QV7GPRSYQYMHKA6GNNPMSJ \
  | 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: 3c53d857e67c65886187503c66b5ec9248f27ffe0c7b709509e3f8fbe52b3144

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-18T06:51:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee63d193e7e3cd72eebf6222f84f6c329feeb2504fa0927f4c091d0c45c891db"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}