Pith Number

pith:J3BWVICJ

pith:2018:J3BWVICJNUGZABQCTHNXVDKVXP

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"Dependency Bottleneck" in Auto-encoding Architectures: an Empirical Study

Denny Wu, Makoto Yamada, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai, Yixiu Zhao

arxiv:1802.05408 v1 · 2018-02-15 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J3BWVICJNUGZABQCTHNXVDKVXP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:15.779444Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ec36aa0496d0d90060299db7a8d55bbd8397de42152ea9a28ab027550b9bd09

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.05408 · arxiv_version: 1802.05408v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.05408 · pith_short_12: J3BWVICJNUGZ · pith_short_16: J3BWVICJNUGZABQC · pith_short_8: J3BWVICJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J3BWVICJNUGZABQCTHNXVDKVXP \
  | 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: 4ec36aa0496d0d90060299db7a8d55bbd8397de42152ea9a28ab027550b9bd09

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e7211af17a6ccb3831ecdcb8eed028abb64b9de0fe70be8c3459e64355cc211c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-15T05:22:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4144c124ad82312a9545623b1f001de2923ec4580a776f92c3981dd5e0d6898"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.05408",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}