Pith Number

pith:JNR25FOT

pith:2019:JNR25FOTIHJDVNP7CI4JSLVPQ4

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Variational Autoencoders for Sparse and Overdispersed Discrete Data

He Zhao, Lan Du, Mingyuan Zhou, Piyush Rai, Wray Buntine

arxiv:1905.00616 v2 · 2019-05-02 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JNR25FOTIHJDVNP7CI4JSLVPQ4}

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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	2026-05-17T23:45:14.585390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b63ae95d341d23ab5ff1238992eaf871d2ce17cf1bff725383bf458eafbb73f

Aliases

arxiv: 1905.00616 · arxiv_version: 1905.00616v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1905.00616 · pith_short_12: JNR25FOTIHJD · pith_short_16: JNR25FOTIHJDVNP7 · pith_short_8: JNR25FOT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JNR25FOTIHJDVNP7CI4JSLVPQ4 \
  | 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: 4b63ae95d341d23ab5ff1238992eaf871d2ce17cf1bff725383bf458eafbb73f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "722f6061951c6f27d769b5632030c47342aa452ca05f99c2df7248396b29cb7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-05-02T08:28:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "98732a2c050d0f56419f7018e8d0107c9bdb0690d58d877e57cd04263ae37c40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1905.00616",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}