Pith Number

pith:4NZDS6MM

pith:2017:4NZDS6MMAYAB47JKDD2JJGP7RJ

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Variable Partitioning for Distributed Optimization

Ilbin Lee, Nicoleta Serban, Yuchen Zheng

arxiv:1710.08994 v1 · 2017-10-24 · math.OC · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4NZDS6MMAYAB47JKDD2JJGP7RJ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-18T00:32:00.623439Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e37239798c06001e7d2a18f49499ff8a671b3f9d8ebf888b169c52b7d09f012d

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.08994 · arxiv_version: 1710.08994v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.08994 · pith_short_12: 4NZDS6MMAYAB · pith_short_16: 4NZDS6MMAYAB47JK · pith_short_8: 4NZDS6MM

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/4NZDS6MMAYAB47JKDD2JJGP7RJ \
  | 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: e37239798c06001e7d2a18f49499ff8a671b3f9d8ebf888b169c52b7d09f012d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "04a9b80886b2597352089e834910948210243f955ce916d1d42c99729b09234e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-24T21:15:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "853f239d23e12a707556b972305f8e313c8d5f33e1faa9cd3819922531a2dfaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.08994",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}