Pith Number

pith:BFZZN2HV

pith:2017:BFZZN2HVM6J53QNDRRCZGFACDK

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Larger is Better: The Effect of Learning Rates Enjoyed by Stochastic Optimization with Progressive Variance Reduction

Fanhua Shang

arxiv:1704.04966 v1 · 2017-04-17 · cs.LG · cs.AI · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BFZZN2HVM6J53QNDRRCZGFACDK}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:17.348621Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

097396e8f56793ddc1a38c459314021a8ec767e26226bb508b645f454207b483

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.04966 · arxiv_version: 1704.04966v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.04966 · pith_short_12: BFZZN2HVM6J5 · pith_short_16: BFZZN2HVM6J53QND · pith_short_8: BFZZN2HV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BFZZN2HVM6J53QNDRRCZGFACDK \
  | 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: 097396e8f56793ddc1a38c459314021a8ec767e26226bb508b645f454207b483

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "468970b08eabe2f538e1b2bd5214cd52f5056bc84048448a78636ea76e90e192",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-17T13:50:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "940ef862c03d814b62d5e7a10fbc96ccfb2ae7ebc618816e8bd29b1d32745c4a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}