Pith Number

pith:POQY2GKA

pith:2019:POQY2GKAG77HTZ2U25GMOEO435

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On Posterior Collapse and Encoder Feature Dispersion in Sequence VAEs

Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Teng Long, Yanshuai Cao

arxiv:1911.03976 v2 · 2019-11-10 · cs.LG · cs.CL · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:50:16.132814Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ba18d194037fe79e754d74cc711dcdf4b82317545f2387f99cd2c8a4d14cb3e

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.03976 · arxiv_version: 1911.03976v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.03976 · pith_short_12: POQY2GKAG77H · pith_short_16: POQY2GKAG77HTZ2U · pith_short_8: POQY2GKA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/POQY2GKAG77HTZ2U25GMOEO435 \
  | 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: 7ba18d194037fe79e754d74cc711dcdf4b82317545f2387f99cd2c8a4d14cb3e

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-10T18:50:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "79d1cb259d4a41422a32a8ebb4abba78cbb6bf6f67e6519f2e90c65971e96aa1"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}