Pith Number

pith:HX7B4CKJ

pith:2018:HX7B4CKJA7J3NX3CD3ITTQZD5M

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Variational Inference: A Unified Framework of Generative Models and Some Revelations

Jianlin Su

arxiv:1807.05936 v4 · 2018-07-16 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HX7B4CKJA7J3NX3CD3ITTQZD5M}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:16.315550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3dfe1e094907d3b6df621ed139c323eb31ce3e7bbd1b669543e37c92c524ee61

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.05936 · arxiv_version: 1807.05936v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.05936 · pith_short_12: HX7B4CKJA7J3 · pith_short_16: HX7B4CKJA7J3NX3C · pith_short_8: HX7B4CKJ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HX7B4CKJA7J3NX3CD3ITTQZD5M \
  | 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: 3dfe1e094907d3b6df621ed139c323eb31ce3e7bbd1b669543e37c92c524ee61

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b553f5b08dd2eadfd999ae4d9df8bb7fb372cef29f1d4a3bca1a59141bd7247",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-16T15:57:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e3f10e181a6e9c9cd2b78f0d3d57dae6f6d52f10e105a35d792b233fba411e3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.05936",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}