Pith Number

pith:VX2U2HR4

pith:2017:VX2U2HR4YP5THNDBVVSNQGXY3P

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Variational Generative Stochastic Networks with Collaborative Shaping

Doina Precup, Philip Bachman

arxiv:1708.00805 v1 · 2017-08-02 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VX2U2HR4YP5THNDBVVSNQGXY3P}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:44.589201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adf54d1e3cc3fb33b461ad64d81af8dbeac1edd18f7ccf32f00445948d1fde22

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.00805 · arxiv_version: 1708.00805v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00805 · pith_short_12: VX2U2HR4YP5T · pith_short_16: VX2U2HR4YP5THNDB · pith_short_8: VX2U2HR4

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/VX2U2HR4YP5THNDBVVSNQGXY3P \
  | 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: adf54d1e3cc3fb33b461ad64d81af8dbeac1edd18f7ccf32f00445948d1fde22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c500c2f8f2b91ff120430232a92bf9bea8b7548c4c423704f7655429a8db6faf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-02T15:55:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec2bcf9cf37522b3c432e85685006010bdddf3f6f105fab90145109acb358eeb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.00805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}