Pith Number

pith:X4AXVO7I

pith:2021:X4AXVO7IVCW7Y4ZRI3EEKE4C6C

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PriorVAE: Encoding spatial priors with VAEs for small-area estimation

Adam Howes, Elizaveta Semenova, Samir Bhatt, Seth Flaxman, Swapnil Mishra, Theo Rashid, Yidan Xu

arxiv:2110.10422 v3 · 2021-10-20 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:59:19.772788Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf017abbe8a8adfc733146c8451382f0a38a5a45b0f0afe45252a97ea40b8a7e

Aliases

arxiv: 2110.10422 · arxiv_version: 2110.10422v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.10422 · pith_short_12: X4AXVO7IVCW7 · pith_short_16: X4AXVO7IVCW7Y4ZR · pith_short_8: X4AXVO7I

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X4AXVO7IVCW7Y4ZRI3EEKE4C6C \
  | 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: bf017abbe8a8adfc733146c8451382f0a38a5a45b0f0afe45252a97ea40b8a7e

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-10-20T08:14:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b5c2d3c665ef686049711cc9179262f62b7ab1b701eae7afa77763f8b7f3219a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
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