Pith Number

pith:CJ4YCPAQ

pith:2012:CJ4YCPAQARR77XWBCINPJ5MRFT

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Performance of a Distributed Stochastic Approximation Algorithm

Gersende Fort, Pascal Bianchi, Walid Hachem

arxiv:1203.1505 v2 · 2012-03-07 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.SY

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\pithnumber{CJ4YCPAQARR77XWBCINPJ5MRFT}

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:05:55.117878Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1279813c100463ffdec1121af4f5912cd17013f4074a86d878498c254167d629

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.1505 · arxiv_version: 1203.1505v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.1505 · pith_short_12: CJ4YCPAQARR7 · pith_short_16: CJ4YCPAQARR77XWB · pith_short_8: CJ4YCPAQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CJ4YCPAQARR77XWBCINPJ5MRFT \
  | 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: 1279813c100463ffdec1121af4f5912cd17013f4074a86d878498c254167d629

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f83eabad9af9f8c82e35e90a889321af51750af00101173f7bbbc74601b12c3d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-07T15:44:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83f8ba6650e3cd7910d70f0cc18b8e4ba661cda1daac9ef19f7736653aeb47d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.1505",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}