Pith Number

pith:FZQYWMBE

pith:2017:FZQYWMBEIOEOGK5XROD622ANPN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lower Bound for Randomized First Order Convex Optimization

Blake Woodworth, Nathan Srebro

arxiv:1709.03594 v2 · 2017-09-11 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FZQYWMBEIOEOGK5XROD622ANPN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:18.720649Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2e618b30244388e32bb78b87ed680d7b70debee00c4641b4eb25f21dced9f015

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03594 · arxiv_version: 1709.03594v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03594 · pith_short_12: FZQYWMBEIOEO · pith_short_16: FZQYWMBEIOEOGK5X · pith_short_8: FZQYWMBE

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FZQYWMBEIOEOGK5XROD622ANPN \
  | 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: 2e618b30244388e32bb78b87ed680d7b70debee00c4641b4eb25f21dced9f015

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09dc109cacda1e5a1d043ba49b38200d69b488e8cdfe9a671338dac745644aee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-11T20:59:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a972c1f67e039a8c4d1945670b60e008667fa34759a599a2a1dffca5a90e7f40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03594",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}