Pith Number

pith:E5PFX7UU

pith:2026:E5PFX7UUFRZY46MJ6CWYYSV46B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VENI: Variational Encoder for Natural Illumination

Andreea Ardelean, Bernhard Egger, James A. D. Gardner, Paul Walker, William A. P. Smith

arxiv:2601.14079 v2 · 2026-01-20 · cs.CV

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E5PFX7UUFRZY46MJ6CWYYSV46B}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-06-25T01:17:49.398468Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

275e5bfe942c738e7989f0ad8c4abcf07a8826f0e5fe7078ce45995dfb313bae

Aliases

arxiv: 2601.14079 · arxiv_version: 2601.14079v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.14079 · pith_short_12: E5PFX7UUFRZY · pith_short_16: E5PFX7UUFRZY46MJ · pith_short_8: E5PFX7UU

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/E5PFX7UUFRZY46MJ6CWYYSV46B \
  | 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: 275e5bfe942c738e7989f0ad8c4abcf07a8826f0e5fe7078ce45995dfb313bae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "80a7bf3e38b6b8e99a1bc1937cb7d4c091abfa987c0b423da32cd43faad1432d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-20T15:38:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f9f1ec9942feef44ce690a67fed60fe84c97fc9dfc1d91e437038de115ff75f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2601.14079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}