Pith Number

pith:QEL3NAPQ

pith:2017:QEL3NAPQACGHOTLZRSVGAF3FJU

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Spatial Variational Auto-Encoding via Matrix-Variate Normal Distributions

Hao Yuan, Shuiwang Ji, Zhengyang Wang

arxiv:1705.06821 v2 · 2017-05-18 · cs.LG · cs.CV · cs.NE · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QEL3NAPQACGHOTLZRSVGAF3FJU}

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4 Citations 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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First computed	2026-05-17T23:56:00.301396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8117b681f0008c774d798caa6017654d235e82db0a4bde0853a51b9c35689ad9

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.06821 · arxiv_version: 1705.06821v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.06821 · pith_short_12: QEL3NAPQACGH · pith_short_16: QEL3NAPQACGHOTLZ · pith_short_8: QEL3NAPQ

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/QEL3NAPQACGHOTLZRSVGAF3FJU \
  | 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: 8117b681f0008c774d798caa6017654d235e82db0a4bde0853a51b9c35689ad9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "079a159f5b91751bc4b69e4c8231f441a70ead7fa591435b615cebdc93724ebe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "cs.NE",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-18T22:32:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ca9fbb94fbda1447432420b07ff91072e90519fef782b63d26617a3e1b3e3ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.06821",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}