Pith Number

pith:IC5WK5J3

pith:2017:IC5WK5J3FCGRY6SMUUYX6PUSI3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beating the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm

Abhinav Aggarwal, Diksha Gupta, Jos\'e Abel Castellanos Joo

arxiv:1708.04668 v1 · 2017-08-15 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IC5WK5J3FCGRY6SMUUYX6PUSI3}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:37:58.244575Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40bb65753b288d1c7a4ca5317f3e9246e3fe54e6896a5ebe427312e0d5b0f612

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.04668 · arxiv_version: 1708.04668v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.04668 · pith_short_12: IC5WK5J3FCGR · pith_short_16: IC5WK5J3FCGRY6SM · pith_short_8: IC5WK5J3

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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/IC5WK5J3FCGRY6SMUUYX6PUSI3 \
  | 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: 40bb65753b288d1c7a4ca5317f3e9246e3fe54e6896a5ebe427312e0d5b0f612

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "502da9be47ca6ef0690862d87c73724d9feabc33b7bc86f87a5665f0cf78dfb3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-15T20:13:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9dbde780a1af609bd30b05312f18e06c1d59b8098830b82fa75838b9da6238c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.04668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}