Pith Number

pith:B5BWNJ7V

pith:2020:B5BWNJ7VOT4ABRVPZGSLBBADAP

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Solving Stochastic Compositional Optimization is Nearly as Easy as Solving Stochastic Optimization

Tianyi Chen, Wotao Yin, Yuejiao Sun

arxiv:2008.10847 v3 · 2020-08-25 · math.OC · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{B5BWNJ7VOT4ABRVPZGSLBBADAP}

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:17:45.073043Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f4366a7f574f800c6afc9a4b0840303dbdfc553a0d7e9a6d1b7b7429340bbd1

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.10847 · arxiv_version: 2008.10847v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.10847 · pith_short_12: B5BWNJ7VOT4A · pith_short_16: B5BWNJ7VOT4ABRVP · pith_short_8: B5BWNJ7V

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B5BWNJ7VOT4ABRVPZGSLBBADAP \
  | 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: 0f4366a7f574f800c6afc9a4b0840303dbdfc553a0d7e9a6d1b7b7429340bbd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40822d697afa17858bd79c17e7d3fb0f2a0b0c96131ff3a3d3309806e33c58f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-25T06:54:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fdc37c0538a933141fc120f4921dad77d63455ba96f5ce156b41a64746d3b74"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.10847",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}