Pith Number

pith:N3AXLE5L

pith:2021:N3AXLE5LDBY2RJFREPNQQQJ7B4

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Improving Lossless Compression Rates via Monte Carlo Bits-Back Coding

Alireza Makhzani, Arnaud Doucet, Ashish Khisti, Chris J. Maddison, Daniel Severo, James Townsend, Karen Ullrich, Yangjun Ruan

arxiv:2102.11086 v2 · 2021-02-22 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N3AXLE5LDBY2RJFREPNQQQJ7B4}

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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	2026-07-05T02:49:25.573218Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6ec17593ab1871a8a4b123db08413f0f134278d981c34c8ca5d8a2d34a30dd78

Aliases

arxiv: 2102.11086 · arxiv_version: 2102.11086v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.11086 · pith_short_12: N3AXLE5LDBY2 · pith_short_16: N3AXLE5LDBY2RJFR · pith_short_8: N3AXLE5L

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N3AXLE5LDBY2RJFREPNQQQJ7B4 \
  | 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: 6ec17593ab1871a8a4b123db08413f0f134278d981c34c8ca5d8a2d34a30dd78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c07c4b628c9cb41d301ed6b54cfb2a4c067626ec1d3a822de3a42a7a6730cad3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-22T14:58:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c8775381d8637a66afcd39110a146a5c324dadae0d409885a30f1ab13742b0f9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2102.11086",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}