Pith Number

pith:2C7HGT2A

pith:2017:2C7HGT2ATCJ2GFJKT5CS3OSYXR

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Optimal Algorithms for Distributed Optimization

Alexander Gasnikov, Angelia Nedi\'c, C\'esar A. Uribe, Soomin Lee

arxiv:1712.00232 v3 · 2017-12-01 · math.OC · cs.CC · cs.MA · cs.SY · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2C7HGT2ATCJ2GFJKT5CS3OSYXR}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:39.835428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d0be734f409893a3152a9f452dba58bc62c8123afb82cfae3d7ae0a3c7f9524d

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00232 · arxiv_version: 1712.00232v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00232 · pith_short_12: 2C7HGT2ATCJ2 · pith_short_16: 2C7HGT2ATCJ2GFJK · pith_short_8: 2C7HGT2A

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/2C7HGT2ATCJ2GFJKT5CS3OSYXR \
  | 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: d0be734f409893a3152a9f452dba58bc62c8123afb82cfae3d7ae0a3c7f9524d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0ca06d5e39b4de24ec86b0f72ccc0eae4fccdae8093bcad39b3e82b42f51a7c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CC",
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.SY",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-01T08:41:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3685cffd0902de90312f161cbcd7c88ee48ea620ce7b6b12e637f7c00d229e87"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00232",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}