Pith Number

pith:NQ2I7QLK

pith:2016:NQ2I7QLKVANVHYYGCKJCSBN7AS

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An Architecture for Deep, Hierarchical Generative Models

Philip Bachman

arxiv:1612.04739 v1 · 2016-12-08 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NQ2I7QLKVANVHYYGCKJCSBN7AS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:58.704771Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6c348fc16aa81b53e30612922905bf0496d00270ac5888f931917427cd118649

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.04739 · arxiv_version: 1612.04739v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.04739 · pith_short_12: NQ2I7QLKVANV · pith_short_16: NQ2I7QLKVANVHYYG · pith_short_8: NQ2I7QLK

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/NQ2I7QLKVANVHYYGCKJCSBN7AS \
  | 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: 6c348fc16aa81b53e30612922905bf0496d00270ac5888f931917427cd118649

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40c0c9ecad191aace30a32ef8725b715d6a88ade331de7d7e11df3d61a200de4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-08T11:17:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38ff2d69a9d6bb7057145f5f343e9f0003cb20a2269ba705df3d63c78475f234"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.04739",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}