Pith Number

pith:DYQXAXNX

pith:2019:DYQXAXNXFU7LINJZTF4DKRMAGR

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On Convergence of Distributed Approximate Newton Methods: Globalization, Sharper Bounds and Beyond

Ping Li, Xiao-Tong Yuan

arxiv:1908.02246 v1 · 2019-08-06 · stat.ML · cs.LG · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DYQXAXNXFU7LINJZTF4DKRMAGR}

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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	2026-07-04T23:51:52.384690Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1e21705db72d3eb4353999783545803440b7a6ddbfa67e10e3efebd72cd38a7e

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.02246 · arxiv_version: 1908.02246v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.02246 · pith_short_12: DYQXAXNXFU7L · pith_short_16: DYQXAXNXFU7LINJZ · pith_short_8: DYQXAXNX

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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/DYQXAXNXFU7LINJZTF4DKRMAGR \
  | 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: 1e21705db72d3eb4353999783545803440b7a6ddbfa67e10e3efebd72cd38a7e

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-06T16:36:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ec3b3c0f5f6f00366ff524258c60a72b43959b464808ec2a98a46ebf49a4989"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}