Pith Number

pith:LWUWXZHT

pith:2017:LWUWXZHTBEUU5B4ZXGWZ3FE54S

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Third-order Smoothness Helps: Even Faster Stochastic Optimization Algorithms for Finding Local Minima

Pan Xu, Quanquan Gu, Yaodong Yu

arxiv:1712.06585 v1 · 2017-12-18 · math.OC · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LWUWXZHTBEUU5B4ZXGWZ3FE54S}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:47.533060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5da96be4f309294e8799b9ad9d949de488604441a4ebad5e6ada266b9c98b9a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.06585 · arxiv_version: 1712.06585v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.06585 · pith_short_12: LWUWXZHTBEUU · pith_short_16: LWUWXZHTBEUU5B4Z · pith_short_8: LWUWXZHT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LWUWXZHTBEUU5B4ZXGWZ3FE54S \
  | 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: 5da96be4f309294e8799b9ad9d949de488604441a4ebad5e6ada266b9c98b9a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b3d5fd968b7521c2f455ff09fe36a3aa3db61b71d4ec36e81c94caf598ac6e84",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-18T18:57:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "554398fda0e10ebda10dff93609113bd33d21e6766200901aa54a55e3d4e21dd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.06585",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}