Pith Number

pith:KA4R77NT

pith:2020:KA4R77NTVNKFTL3EY5YE7AOU6T

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Accelerating Optimization and Reinforcement Learning with Quasi-Stochastic Approximation

Adithya Devraj, Andrey Bernstein, Sean Meyn, Shuhang Chen

arxiv:2009.14431 v2 · 2020-09-30 · math.OC · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KA4R77NTVNKFTL3EY5YE7AOU6T}

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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	2026-07-05T01:39:29.299477Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

50391ffdb3ab5459af64c7704f81d4f4fa9ff1a44b75a8ed0bf2a71a28a292c7

Aliases

arxiv: 2009.14431 · arxiv_version: 2009.14431v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2009.14431 · pith_short_12: KA4R77NTVNKF · pith_short_16: KA4R77NTVNKFTL3E · pith_short_8: KA4R77NT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KA4R77NTVNKFTL3EY5YE7AOU6T \
  | 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: 50391ffdb3ab5459af64c7704f81d4f4fa9ff1a44b75a8ed0bf2a71a28a292c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d44ea4bb3d760787a37ba99d943079016d53ad154c65d834180706e9f7778c75",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-09-30T04:44:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f1046e2eefc6830f12e056011beb6ff3d3f280cb0fa123335003a1b077dc06a2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2009.14431",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}