Pith Number

pith:SUDWGKAJ

pith:2017:SUDWGKAJL3PUXFZWWCQBQ5Y4LP

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Improving Variational Auto-Encoders using convex combination linear Inverse Autoregressive Flow

Jakub M. Tomczak, Max Welling

arxiv:1706.02326 v2 · 2017-06-07 · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SUDWGKAJL3PUXFZWWCQBQ5Y4LP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:23.278097Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

95076328095edf4b9736b0a018771c5bc5a47a1976d3840795853f428e211af5

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.02326 · arxiv_version: 1706.02326v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.02326 · pith_short_12: SUDWGKAJL3PU · pith_short_16: SUDWGKAJL3PUXFZW · pith_short_8: SUDWGKAJ

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/SUDWGKAJL3PUXFZWWCQBQ5Y4LP \
  | 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: 95076328095edf4b9736b0a018771c5bc5a47a1976d3840795853f428e211af5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50660628b1112a8422dc97a4dba44762913cbff06d78fd1d0db1bcab16007dbe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-07T18:25:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef648cef5b926723a6a3c13eff8a9252ba749676ee1d6ffbc7ec40c26a058c15"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.02326",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}