Pith Number

pith:JDCBK4MW

pith:2019:JDCBK4MW5I3ZGFYY7CXZDBJ6JW

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Bit-Swap: Recursive Bits-Back Coding for Lossless Compression with Hierarchical Latent Variables

Friso H. Kingma, Jonathan Ho, Pieter Abbeel

arxiv:1905.06845 v4 · 2019-05-16 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.CO · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{JDCBK4MW5I3ZGFYY7CXZDBJ6JW}

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:09:15.417438Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

48c4157196ea37931718f8af91853e4d9affa5a74b261353316c1cc2eeca0ac6

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.06845 · arxiv_version: 1905.06845v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.06845 · pith_short_12: JDCBK4MW5I3Z · pith_short_16: JDCBK4MW5I3ZGFYY · pith_short_8: JDCBK4MW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JDCBK4MW5I3ZGFYY7CXZDBJ6JW \
  | 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: 48c4157196ea37931718f8af91853e4d9affa5a74b261353316c1cc2eeca0ac6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a053caffdff2f8d6511b43d897fa7c16539052c954dfc8b0c7e529ef628f41f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-16T15:32:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43ce2175569c1b8390fae5768f804ffda2dfd87f7e5fbc635b313cc085c8d6cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.06845",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}