Pith Number

pith:VL2PP3JK

pith:2017:VL2PP3JKHRQGIDEC5ITW3UKNCK

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Discovering Discrete Latent Topics with Neural Variational Inference

Edward Grefenstette, Phil Blunsom, Yishu Miao

arxiv:1706.00359 v2 · 2017-06-01 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.IR · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VL2PP3JKHRQGIDEC5ITW3UKNCK}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:30.727227Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aaf4f7ed2a3c60640c82ea276dd14d12ab0e92620c84dea0a56ee5f9cc2c1d74

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.00359 · arxiv_version: 1706.00359v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.00359 · pith_short_12: VL2PP3JKHRQG · pith_short_16: VL2PP3JKHRQGIDEC · pith_short_8: VL2PP3JK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VL2PP3JKHRQGIDEC5ITW3UKNCK \
  | 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: aaf4f7ed2a3c60640c82ea276dd14d12ab0e92620c84dea0a56ee5f9cc2c1d74

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c2ac0b140610cdbfc6b74606550615d211da7f9af01d1c1914a598b1acdbdfd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-01T15:55:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6db4098804f44e533344ab10315043c453afbace9074aaa59dfd66fc9689117b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.00359",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}