Pith Number

pith:UNL7PVOS

pith:2017:UNL7PVOSFV54LJKEGTY7HKIHYM

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Flexible Prior Distributions for Deep Generative Models

Aurelien Lucchi, Thomas Hofmann, Yannic Kilcher

arxiv:1710.11383 v2 · 2017-10-31 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UNL7PVOSFV54LJKEGTY7HKIHYM}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:36.112545Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a357f7d5d22d7bc5a54434f1f3a907c31862c8cf235aad79e78d7b7849e5cff1

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.11383 · arxiv_version: 1710.11383v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.11383 · pith_short_12: UNL7PVOSFV54 · pith_short_16: UNL7PVOSFV54LJKE · pith_short_8: UNL7PVOS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UNL7PVOSFV54LJKEGTY7HKIHYM \
  | 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: a357f7d5d22d7bc5a54434f1f3a907c31862c8cf235aad79e78d7b7849e5cff1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "833eea5a41d2f006386253948f2f84fba9be900072199d088399b4884e9a9f81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-31T09:16:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c489d25abcca0d7203cfaf9cf68a36ecc1e29ab91b1b5bf61994c9b613b5c81b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.11383",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}