Pith Number

pith:3RVGH667

pith:2019:3RVGH667GS4ZL3GLD7T6UILZCP

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Gradientless Descent: High-Dimensional Zeroth-Order Optimization

Chansoo Lee, Daniel Golovin, Greg Kochanski, John Karro, Qiuyi Zhang, Xingyou Song

arxiv:1911.06317 v4 · 2019-11-14 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:03:41.591683Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dc6a63fbdf34b995eccb1fe7ea217913ef37e05e6b5f2f53842e8c1635ac33ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.06317 · arxiv_version: 1911.06317v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.06317 · pith_short_12: 3RVGH667GS4Z · pith_short_16: 3RVGH667GS4ZL3GL · pith_short_8: 3RVGH667

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3RVGH667GS4ZL3GLD7T6UILZCP \
  | 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: dc6a63fbdf34b995eccb1fe7ea217913ef37e05e6b5f2f53842e8c1635ac33ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04c74affd3f49043a15eba6b13f3fe4e07d071495848a06d70682d2ea2a218a6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-14T18:58:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "203816e470e0baf02770b32be249604e9e75d707a75820208abc9e81a3172d6b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.06317",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}