Pith Number

pith:B7VEJ54O

pith:2018:B7VEJ54O7WDAN65R2ZXZTERKOK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Graph-Based Ascent Algorithms for Function Maximization

Muni Sreenivas Pydi, Po-Ling Loh, Varun Jog

arxiv:1802.04475 v1 · 2018-02-13 · cs.SI · cs.NA · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B7VEJ54O7WDAN65R2ZXZTERKOK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:44.101821Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fea44f78efd8606fbb1d66f99922a729a64f5492bfe7121be381357994d4f6d

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.04475 · arxiv_version: 1802.04475v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.04475 · pith_short_12: B7VEJ54O7WDA · pith_short_16: B7VEJ54O7WDAN65R · pith_short_8: B7VEJ54O

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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/B7VEJ54O7WDAN65R2ZXZTERKOK \
  | 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: 0fea44f78efd8606fbb1d66f99922a729a64f5492bfe7121be381357994d4f6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cfc1401ed35389773982f8068e689478f569fc4191a405bceafc818f221d9a1f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NA",
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-13T06:31:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39b3b30b53b4ca88761f211f6527a6109bfc3dd3886e4b10fa458cf47a74080a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.04475",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}