Pith Number

pith:LB3R7NVQ

pith:2018:LB3R7NVQL5655EX3UEIZPGPNMF

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Multi-Source Neural Variational Inference

Patrick van der Smagt, Richard Kurle, Stephan G\"unnemann

arxiv:1811.04451 v2 · 2018-11-11 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LB3R7NVQL5655EX3UEIZPGPNMF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:29.389028Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58771fb6b05f7dde92fba1119799ed6172470b90bd1b425907a3b0ddb327de29

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.04451 · arxiv_version: 1811.04451v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.04451 · pith_short_12: LB3R7NVQL565 · pith_short_16: LB3R7NVQL5655EX3 · pith_short_8: LB3R7NVQ

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/LB3R7NVQL5655EX3UEIZPGPNMF \
  | 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: 58771fb6b05f7dde92fba1119799ed6172470b90bd1b425907a3b0ddb327de29

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "539f674d4adbd89fbde1986dbda1f176fdd9d6b8915f9f3be3c7d4a6ef098c57",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-11T18:59:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c36c3168ce9c66d0468fa51501bcc3a16539941aed5a1993870f81aa3d678359"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.04451",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}