Pith Number

pith:BQRNQF6B

pith:2025:BQRNQF6BSSFQAS4ROUVWDH6N23

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An Introduction to Discrete Variational Autoencoders

Alan Jeffares, Liyuan Liu

arxiv:2505.10344 v1 · 2025-05-15 · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQRNQF6BSSFQAS4ROUVWDH6N23}

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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	2026-07-05T11:03:37.151942Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c22d817c1948b004b91752b619fcdd6c126e2c22458f30fc09a4986eebf1c98

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.10344 · arxiv_version: 2505.10344v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.10344 · pith_short_12: BQRNQF6BSSFQ · pith_short_16: BQRNQF6BSSFQAS4R · pith_short_8: BQRNQF6B

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/BQRNQF6BSSFQAS4ROUVWDH6N23 \
  | 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: 0c22d817c1948b004b91752b619fcdd6c126e2c22458f30fc09a4986eebf1c98

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9acda19ef784994af5dec625ca81671a6d3705a31d9e2c3a1fb9faf0290b9f7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-15T14:33:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "774a23a56f7d825488db140bc9390b17d8b47e22f636cf63d4b14c25932fb911"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.10344",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}