Pith Number

pith:QEFZ5EML

pith:2018:QEFZ5EML3W6XTJSA6JEDJCK4OF

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A Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative Models

Ruiqi Gao, Song-Chun Zhu, Tian Han, Ying Nian Wu

arxiv:1810.04261 v2 · 2018-10-09 · stat.ML · cs.CV · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QEFZ5EML3W6XTJSA6JEDJCK4OF}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:14.095045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

810b9e918bddbd79a640f24834895c717548212f06b25707679e6314ee570d23

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.04261 · arxiv_version: 1810.04261v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.04261 · pith_short_12: QEFZ5EML3W6X · pith_short_16: QEFZ5EML3W6XTJSA · pith_short_8: QEFZ5EML

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QEFZ5EML3W6XTJSA6JEDJCK4OF \
  | 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: 810b9e918bddbd79a640f24834895c717548212f06b25707679e6314ee570d23

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44f1ae65ecc6440a2ab2857996c847927cefd5d7dff5a6be0a38849fe4d41996",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-09T21:54:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "361b193502083f6c539b045da29b6de0259f4240efb59b9ec1d9fa0c6c6896fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.04261",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}