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pith:QYNKER35

pith:2018:QYNKER35FOIGSC3QMEAWAHTD3L

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Compressing Neural Networks using the Variational Information Bottleneck

Bin Dai, Chen Zhu, David Wipf

arxiv:1802.10399 v3 · 2018-02-28 · cs.CV

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:18:03.734365Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

861aa2477d2b90690b706101601e63dafaafed164c130e603031aaee35d7b1e6

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.10399 · arxiv_version: 1802.10399v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.10399 · pith_short_12: QYNKER35FOIG · pith_short_16: QYNKER35FOIGSC3Q · pith_short_8: QYNKER35

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QYNKER35FOIGSC3QMEAWAHTD3L \
  | 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: 861aa2477d2b90690b706101601e63dafaafed164c130e603031aaee35d7b1e6

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8755448865e9a415170a67e454e5cc6fb59696f75305388bb81a7dd5bd14db1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-28T13:26:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "54eb84b6d415733ae8bc713b177a3ce3ddf60c7d50f3bafe19625871a7ec6936"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.10399",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}