Pith Number

pith:WDUCDNLD

pith:2018:WDUCDNLDCLKEFHXRXIKDT3YLMP

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A Probe Towards Understanding GAN and VAE Models

Jingzhao Zhang, Lu Mi, Macheng Shen

arxiv:1812.05676 v2 · 2018-12-13 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WDUCDNLDCLKEFHXRXIKDT3YLMP}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:08.316792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0e821b56312d4429ef1ba1439ef0b63c6c5dd005fe071e6055535ea5ac70956

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.05676 · arxiv_version: 1812.05676v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.05676 · pith_short_12: WDUCDNLDCLKE · pith_short_16: WDUCDNLDCLKEFHXR · pith_short_8: WDUCDNLD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WDUCDNLDCLKEFHXRXIKDT3YLMP \
  | 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: b0e821b56312d4429ef1ba1439ef0b63c6c5dd005fe071e6055535ea5ac70956

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0de70dccc8349b0deb52fe5050ba3d919c57a1065fa12ea5841d315a3f91ccd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-13T20:33:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43ef4710b77fa755ec3c099439d9457ff21b7ef73a635a67a9271e9bb49e20c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.05676",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}