Pith Number

pith:VTXYIVZU

pith:2019:VTXYIVZULJC5REUUVNDJLTLZON

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Neural Image Compression and Explanation

Shihao Ji, Xiang Li

arxiv:1908.08988 v2 · 2019-08-09 · cs.CV · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VTXYIVZULJC5REUUVNDJLTLZON}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T01:57:47.942607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

acef8457345a45d89294ab4695cd797354dfcfeeb2d927b1aac3f34ea5729358

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.08988 · arxiv_version: 1908.08988v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.08988 · pith_short_12: VTXYIVZULJC5 · pith_short_16: VTXYIVZULJC5REUU · pith_short_8: VTXYIVZU

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/VTXYIVZULJC5REUUVNDJLTLZON \
  | 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: acef8457345a45d89294ab4695cd797354dfcfeeb2d927b1aac3f34ea5729358

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "275ce6c835b23bf6e5eadcb989e1361cdf0f09c1561e340b4904d6c93dd2afb3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-09T15:39:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f6d2cf1b9d1da183e7e162dfe8027371baba2626649891e0273463f24e7a2658"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.08988",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}