Pith Number

pith:77D4CVTK

pith:2018:77D4CVTK6KJCGBB7HAGQ3GZEZP

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Distributed Big-Data Optimization via Block-Iterative Convexification and Averaging

Gesualdo Scutari, Giuseppe Notarstefano, Ivano Notarnicola, Ying Sun

arxiv:1805.00658 v1 · 2018-05-02 · cs.DC · cs.SY · math.OC

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:58.282810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffc7c1566af29223043f380d0d9b24cbf22e433cfb0e40c74ce3f8ac762a8a76

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.00658 · arxiv_version: 1805.00658v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.00658 · pith_short_12: 77D4CVTK6KJC · pith_short_16: 77D4CVTK6KJCGBB7 · pith_short_8: 77D4CVTK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/77D4CVTK6KJCGBB7HAGQ3GZEZP \
  | 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: ffc7c1566af29223043f380d0d9b24cbf22e433cfb0e40c74ce3f8ac762a8a76

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b29f925b610ae79c631cb05e226de029f215fb326110e67991e82418092519c8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SY",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-02T07:56:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f346736d79eb55976d4b3a64ef998f419f30655ced0964c40447fd7210a8c916"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}