Pith Number

pith:CXL3XBTD

pith:2018:CXL3XBTDJEG735FOXHYFL4YFGP

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Walkman: A Communication-Efficient Random-Walk Algorithm for Decentralized Optimization

Ali H. Sayed, Kun Yuan, Wotao Yin, Xianghui Mao, Yuantao Gu, Yubin Hu

arxiv:1804.06568 v4 · 2018-04-18 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.MA · cs.SY

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:41:46.686809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

15d7bb8663490dfdf4aeb9f055f30533db1c7a9729b98cd15655c4ff44ddf366

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.06568 · arxiv_version: 1804.06568v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.06568 · pith_short_12: CXL3XBTDJEG7 · pith_short_16: CXL3XBTDJEG735FO · pith_short_8: CXL3XBTD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CXL3XBTDJEG735FOXHYFL4YFGP \
  | 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: 15d7bb8663490dfdf4aeb9f055f30533db1c7a9729b98cd15655c4ff44ddf366

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eb3618c8493e7c2494343698e0d3b4f892e0602e9e702fcff63727e2dced2734",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.MA",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-18T06:26:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "147d686abf20ebb2cf2f13858847417ad49bb29b4a7a4d38eb9b1162426615ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.06568",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}