Pith Number

pith:FRFLYW4C

pith:2017:FRFLYW4C4FA4GG6KPTNB3EMPN6

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Optimal algorithms for smooth and strongly convex distributed optimization in networks

Francis Bach (SIERRA), Kevin Scaman (MSR - INRIA), Laurent Massouli\'e (MSR - INRIA), S\'ebastien Bubeck, Yin Tat Lee

arxiv:1702.08704 v2 · 2017-02-28 · math.OC · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:51.269737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c4abc5b82e141c31bca7cda1d918f6f97b29f54c097547e608d2bd2ce748b20

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08704 · arxiv_version: 1702.08704v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08704 · pith_short_12: FRFLYW4C4FA4 · pith_short_16: FRFLYW4C4FA4GG6K · pith_short_8: FRFLYW4C

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FRFLYW4C4FA4GG6KPTNB3EMPN6 \
  | 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: 2c4abc5b82e141c31bca7cda1d918f6f97b29f54c097547e608d2bd2ce748b20

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-28T09:09:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7608d5e29b17bb32a80e56fee1699a2b3ab72513a2ecd77cf725410a809709f1"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}