Pith Number

pith:XHDSBVMC

pith:2017:XHDSBVMCW7M2XZZWG7PSFDMDOY

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On the Effectiveness of Least Squares Generative Adversarial Networks

Haoran Xie, Qing Li, Raymond Y.K. Lau, Stephen Paul Smolley, Xudong Mao, Zhen Wang

arxiv:1712.06391 v2 · 2017-12-18 · cs.CV · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:14.400027Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9c720d582b7d9abe73637df228d83760cc02f1fe7f695b54060911338d1869d

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06391 · arxiv_version: 1712.06391v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06391 · pith_short_12: XHDSBVMCW7M2 · pith_short_16: XHDSBVMCW7M2XZZW · pith_short_8: XHDSBVMC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XHDSBVMCW7M2XZZWG7PSFDMDOY \
  | 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: b9c720d582b7d9abe73637df228d83760cc02f1fe7f695b54060911338d1869d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "361d8e3f554b0468c3ab49eb5096b03b6eeac6ac32330e6cdc9caff9766f6938",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T13:36:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba1ca5279eba802e3bede2001c0ad21eb99b21ded8c04d057d0c96719e1131d9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}