Pith Number

pith:3EZIT3SA

pith:2024:3EZIT3SABUEH7JWNSIA5JQIBCB

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Gradient Testing and Estimation by Comparisons

Chenyi Zhang, Helin Wang, Tongyang Li, Xiwen Tao, Yexin Zhang

arxiv:2405.11454 v3 · 2024-05-19 · cs.LG · cs.DS · math.OC

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\pithnumber{3EZIT3SABUEH7JWNSIA5JQIBCB}

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-26T01:15:42.232467Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d93289ee400d087fa6cd9201d4c101107b01b0abea1dd1e0eb5cfd70a7833952

Aliases

arxiv: 2405.11454 · arxiv_version: 2405.11454v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.11454 · pith_short_12: 3EZIT3SABUEH · pith_short_16: 3EZIT3SABUEH7JWN · pith_short_8: 3EZIT3SA

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3EZIT3SABUEH7JWNSIA5JQIBCB \
  | 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: d93289ee400d087fa6cd9201d4c101107b01b0abea1dd1e0eb5cfd70a7833952

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0dbe17318bca8bc46268cf69c017c05f607ad1665785b406b889ab0c2ae1c837",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-19T05:39:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c60736565be94b771c54a09d31650a4769b74dc2b3f2041d07fb618e00efb4a5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2405.11454",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}