Pith Number

pith:MZ2KXQYE

pith:2018:MZ2KXQYEWM57XAOZG3D3PZD4AM

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Distributed Big-Data Optimization via Block-wise Gradient Tracking

Gesualdo Scutari, Giuseppe Notarstefano, Ivano Notarnicola, Ying Sun

arxiv:1808.07252 v2 · 2018-08-22 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MZ2KXQYEWM57XAOZG3D3PZD4AM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:06:45.747137Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6674abc304b33bfb81d936c7b7e47c030c7ed4176d02c5f964d4d56868e8d73c

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.07252 · arxiv_version: 1808.07252v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.07252 · pith_short_12: MZ2KXQYEWM57 · pith_short_16: MZ2KXQYEWM57XAOZ · pith_short_8: MZ2KXQYE

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/MZ2KXQYEWM57XAOZG3D3PZD4AM \
  | 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: 6674abc304b33bfb81d936c7b7e47c030c7ed4176d02c5f964d4d56868e8d73c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d53f448dd9e5daa77c558e4cf7290cd37e17ba46b148b8fcbf33bbb7ef902110",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-22T07:30:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "783ef0166d1a5f3d710322cb6f6fdbd6863389ae9a3090ba91ca1c400c30e5eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.07252",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}