Pith Number

pith:Y2MHS57X

pith:2017:Y2MHS57XZYSERPKFV4YKXX5ZBK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Filtering Variational Objectives

Andriy Mnih, Arnaud Doucet, Chris J. Maddison, Dieterich Lawson, George Tucker, Mohammad Norouzi, Nicolas Heess, Yee Whye Teh

arxiv:1705.09279 v3 · 2017-05-25 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.NE · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y2MHS57XZYSERPKFV4YKXX5ZBK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:30:44.629819Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c6987977f7ce2448bd45af30abdfb90aa30f87c650497545ae5c2bbb6b8b33e1

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09279 · arxiv_version: 1705.09279v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09279 · pith_short_12: Y2MHS57XZYSE · pith_short_16: Y2MHS57XZYSERPKF · pith_short_8: Y2MHS57X

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/Y2MHS57XZYSERPKFV4YKXX5ZBK \
  | 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: c6987977f7ce2448bd45af30abdfb90aa30f87c650497545ae5c2bbb6b8b33e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa42dc6752ca4668a77f667da7a6c07e3e34abae9967ff7ef7e062ffb3b83b7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.NE",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-25T17:52:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3a8603d222b3cecdd4c8cf9e776ca7c697154cc1bfe2cc92e642917a5a37ee74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}