Pith Number

pith:3NUV65DS

pith:2018:3NUV65DSA36Z7OJAXBYZ73BEXF

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On the Randomized Complexity of Minimizing a Convex Quadratic Function

Max Simchowitz

arxiv:1807.09386 v7 · 2018-07-24 · cs.LG · cs.DS · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3NUV65DSA36Z7OJAXBYZ73BEXF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:48:34.010893Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db695f747206fd9fb920b8719fec24b975adc8b30b5c3a8c55d6ee5ac41e12de

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.09386 · arxiv_version: 1807.09386v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.09386 · pith_short_12: 3NUV65DSA36Z · pith_short_16: 3NUV65DSA36Z7OJA · pith_short_8: 3NUV65DS

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/3NUV65DSA36Z7OJAXBYZ73BEXF \
  | 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: db695f747206fd9fb920b8719fec24b975adc8b30b5c3a8c55d6ee5ac41e12de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66ff21771925f66a4ac5414a08baadd5164700adda8df0ef9e294eecdd14765b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-24T23:23:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d9d87755860c073b1f9fd66f0f6b20b4cafa534ef9d32f85d9bb9c04e96d3de6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.09386",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 7
  }
}