Pith Number

pith:L7GWIRLZ

pith:2026:L7GWIRLZVXATYT3HVGJXANKF4H

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Entropic Auto-Encoding via Implicit Free-Energy Minimization

Greg van Anders, Hazhir Aliahmadi, Irina Babayan

arxiv:2605.16164 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L7GWIRLZVXATYT3HVGJXANKF4H}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-20T00:01:55.710052Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5fcd644579adc13c4f67a993703545e1ff66daf0af7961b15b73dfdb02122693

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16164 · arxiv_version: 2605.16164v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16164 · pith_short_12: L7GWIRLZVXAT · pith_short_16: L7GWIRLZVXATYT3H · pith_short_8: L7GWIRLZ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/L7GWIRLZVXATYT3HVGJXANKF4H \
  | 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: 5fcd644579adc13c4f67a993703545e1ff66daf0af7961b15b73dfdb02122693

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aaac04b4456dc120ed8bcbe9e7e6dec61d19d56f13699b85d86733499d39d4b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T16:43:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89360ce0422e9522b8a36f01837b657a2a4cdecde305a29380a7a2f268ec69a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16164",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}