Pith Number

pith:3XUETEAI

pith:2018:3XUETEAIQC47XNBKYYSC4NWK32

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Asynchronous Stochastic Composition Optimization with Variance Reduction

Jingchang Liu, Junliang Guo, Linli Xu, Qing Ling, Shuheng Shen

arxiv:1811.06396 v1 · 2018-11-15 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{3XUETEAIQC47XNBKYYSC4NWK32}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:37.816585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dde849900880b9fbb42ac6242e36cadea5c14d5b5e233dd500224bfed4cd54f8

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.06396 · arxiv_version: 1811.06396v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.06396 · pith_short_12: 3XUETEAIQC47 · pith_short_16: 3XUETEAIQC47XNBK · pith_short_8: 3XUETEAI

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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/3XUETEAIQC47XNBKYYSC4NWK32 \
  | 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: dde849900880b9fbb42ac6242e36cadea5c14d5b5e233dd500224bfed4cd54f8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "888a1cfe00fe57fd85f0dcf332f786f7e52cb39d8548883498ba52db34688b74",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-15T14:34:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1bc5483ba75f9ab695c8e5c03a878a1200cf9c9c14f3d80830d15a15b4eb4298"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.06396",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}