Pith Number

pith:LXLNX7N5

pith:2015:LXLNX7N572OAMUTIWZ3CWVSQ2M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Improving Simulated Annealing through Derandomization

Luke Bornn, Mathieu Gerber

arxiv:1505.03173 v4 · 2015-05-12 · stat.CO · math.NA · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LXLNX7N572OAMUTIWZ3CWVSQ2M}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:06:22.882817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5dd6dbfdbdfe9c065268b6762b5650d310e4c4a13822aeb73cd9645e3283f2d5

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.03173 · arxiv_version: 1505.03173v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.03173 · pith_short_12: LXLNX7N572OA · pith_short_16: LXLNX7N572OAMUTI · pith_short_8: LXLNX7N5

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/LXLNX7N572OAMUTIWZ3CWVSQ2M \
  | 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: 5dd6dbfdbdfe9c065268b6762b5650d310e4c4a13822aeb73cd9645e3283f2d5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4751b5cb66f4bcab66ca77a1d94f37c79ae3554216d29b0c8b73bcd6ff2da988",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NA",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-12T21:32:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "163c65e30012149078e045af7a24b875b2fcaf57f88cb638690998ca5edc1f3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.03173",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}