Pith Number

pith:POPXWUDT

pith:2018:POPXWUDTS3MRLQ7DMFQPZOUM2J

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information Constraints on Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes

Jeffrey Regier, Michael I. Jordan, Nir Yosef, Romain Lopez

arxiv:1805.08672 v4 · 2018-05-22 · cs.LG · q-bio.GN · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{POPXWUDTS3MRLQ7DMFQPZOUM2J}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:38.903572Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7b9f7b507396d915c3e36160fcba8cd25fb700f443fff7495b69d0e9bbe17be1

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.08672 · arxiv_version: 1805.08672v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.08672 · pith_short_12: POPXWUDTS3MR · pith_short_16: POPXWUDTS3MRLQ7D · pith_short_8: POPXWUDT

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/POPXWUDTS3MRLQ7DMFQPZOUM2J \
  | 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: 7b9f7b507396d915c3e36160fcba8cd25fb700f443fff7495b69d0e9bbe17be1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4edd1d64cc10388adeb8ee089a65ca6ec682702d68ecad11fa3fc5eb4496ceac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.GN",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-22T15:45:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3643e9b8afdeae2ec2b56061afc283affd839c9fac8856d136e5c3352ea510b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.08672",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}