Pith Number

pith:6S5ZLGAQ

pith:2020:6S5ZLGAQRIYSLNMSYCTCTXJN5E

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A general framework for decentralized optimization with first-order methods

Angelia Nedi\'c, Ran Xin, Shi Pu, Usman A. Khan

arxiv:2009.05837 v1 · 2020-09-12 · cs.LG · cs.MA · cs.SY · eess.SY · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6S5ZLGAQRIYSLNMSYCTCTXJN5E}

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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	2026-07-05T01:35:01.739482Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f4bb9598108a3125b592c0a629dd2de92224b04d1ec7f5629fb7875c8a81f29d

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.05837 · arxiv_version: 2009.05837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.05837 · pith_short_12: 6S5ZLGAQRIYS · pith_short_16: 6S5ZLGAQRIYSLNMS · pith_short_8: 6S5ZLGAQ

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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/6S5ZLGAQRIYSLNMSYCTCTXJN5E \
  | 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: f4bb9598108a3125b592c0a629dd2de92224b04d1ec7f5629fb7875c8a81f29d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58d0906e1a275717faffd7d7515ba56c047a6dd74ee0336f7c62fc2b7411c6b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.SY",
      "eess.SY",
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-12T17:52:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2aa1d457f277c083c8bcdcf1e2f5ee5bda2764181acec95280f553a4722b15a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.05837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}