Pith Number

pith:7WRNNEC6

pith:2018:7WRNNEC6BBTUBVAQNV4R73VFXH

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Damped Anderson acceleration with restarts and monotonicity control for accelerating EM and EM-like algorithms

Nicholas C. Henderson, Ravi Varadhan

arxiv:1803.06673 v2 · 2018-03-18 · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7WRNNEC6BBTUBVAQNV4R73VFXH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:20.947563Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fda2d6905e086740d4106d791feea5b9f171b68301b52f32a3d81ea0e32991e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.06673 · arxiv_version: 1803.06673v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.06673 · pith_short_12: 7WRNNEC6BBTU · pith_short_16: 7WRNNEC6BBTUBVAQ · pith_short_8: 7WRNNEC6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7WRNNEC6BBTUBVAQNV4R73VFXH \
  | 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: fda2d6905e086740d4106d791feea5b9f171b68301b52f32a3d81ea0e32991e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28ef21be278a19883d965666ed86fbc1e534537fd661c18d3f1436de5fbe0190",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-18T15:01:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72dc8e5737a9bc0c4adb7c9d3d9b1cf3ddb3717bef1fa76ef606ee25aec4d0bd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.06673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}