Pith Number

pith:ZODZO5PP

pith:2018:ZODZO5PPLUVSZ64EF2SOYKAPHJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Understanding VAEs in Fisher-Shannon Plane

Huangjie Zheng, Ivor W. Tsang, Jiangchao Yao, Jia Wang, Ya Zhang

arxiv:1807.03723 v2 · 2018-07-10 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZODZO5PPLUVSZ64EF2SOYKAPHJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:44.571476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb879775ef5d2b2cfb842ea4ec280f3a76c7ddd3d78b12d547cb357527b365ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.03723 · arxiv_version: 1807.03723v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.03723 · pith_short_12: ZODZO5PPLUVS · pith_short_16: ZODZO5PPLUVSZ64E · pith_short_8: ZODZO5PP

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZODZO5PPLUVSZ64EF2SOYKAPHJ \
  | 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: cb879775ef5d2b2cfb842ea4ec280f3a76c7ddd3d78b12d547cb357527b365ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cd775d0dc059a813fc0104d2299a99556ead7c5cb03821def68b171823be7314",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-10T15:47:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a6a309888e392e225a881dc60f768972259d991f7550afd40b7ef467cfc674d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.03723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}