Pith Number

pith:P5DJ7H3Z

pith:2018:P5DJ7H3ZYEL5PPMRFDRD727FCU

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Understanding Autoencoders with Information Theoretic Concepts

Jose C. Principe, Shujian Yu

arxiv:1804.00057 v3 · 2018-03-30 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P5DJ7H3ZYEL5PPMRFDRD727FCU}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:46.415830Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f469f9f79c117d7bd9128e23febe515365ea92e99d20ca8fe58e6f065f45e1d

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.00057 · arxiv_version: 1804.00057v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.00057 · pith_short_12: P5DJ7H3ZYEL5 · pith_short_16: P5DJ7H3ZYEL5PPMR · pith_short_8: P5DJ7H3Z

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/P5DJ7H3ZYEL5PPMRFDRD727FCU \
  | 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: 7f469f9f79c117d7bd9128e23febe515365ea92e99d20ca8fe58e6f065f45e1d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "96b429a5ad395e74bd3e7e081c4628e2d5ef57fa3c22c51b2527ac7536a5b989",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-30T21:13:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2e7cd3db41dbb466348e62b5e16c92e620c1a35cc7b40d2b440ebf82601b6dba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.00057",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}