Pith Number

pith:TONB2QJA

pith:2018:TONB2QJAJMNKDMK5SPWUUSDCBF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Variational Composite Autoencoders

Ivor Tsang, Jiangchao Yao, Ya Zhang

arxiv:1804.04435 v1 · 2018-04-12 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TONB2QJAJMNKDMK5SPWUUSDCBF}

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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	2026-05-18T00:18:37.562525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9b9a1d41204b1aa1b15d93ed4a4862096db8445c9de3712e5228b38eef6f3f90

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.04435 · arxiv_version: 1804.04435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.04435 · pith_short_12: TONB2QJAJMNK · pith_short_16: TONB2QJAJMNKDMK5 · pith_short_8: TONB2QJA

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/TONB2QJAJMNKDMK5SPWUUSDCBF \
  | 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: 9b9a1d41204b1aa1b15d93ed4a4862096db8445c9de3712e5228b38eef6f3f90

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1fd6cf27d5178b8033fb796463fe7b2f8876bbe4cfec367074cdbf653ffe3f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-12T11:36:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ac27b544e5f4ffa6c50446d66bbf475b3f72bd2cbbf1824ed3c4d1c1010226d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.04435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}