Pith Number

pith:YGMVSLAQ

pith:2017:YGMVSLAQQWJV4DX7QC2VDERQ6S

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Fixing a Broken ELBO

Alexander A. Alemi, Ben Poole, Ian Fischer, Joshua V. Dillon, Kevin Murphy, Rif A. Saurous

arxiv:1711.00464 v3 · 2017-11-01 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YGMVSLAQQWJV4DX7QC2VDERQ6S}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:22.893033Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c199592c1085935e0eff80b5519230f48d909752c1bffc8a23942df8471802e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00464 · arxiv_version: 1711.00464v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00464 · pith_short_12: YGMVSLAQQWJV · pith_short_16: YGMVSLAQQWJV4DX7 · pith_short_8: YGMVSLAQ

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/YGMVSLAQQWJV4DX7QC2VDERQ6S \
  | 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: c199592c1085935e0eff80b5519230f48d909752c1bffc8a23942df8471802e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d879062ad3b9fc95a1bda5da9b2461fc3c8890c71c0e49dfdb4a882e20e23cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-01T17:58:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42690d9522b06889d9c0181a46fe6443b9eebaa444ad2b14a5cfb2bde89d478c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00464",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}