Pith Number

pith:NLFKQSWH

pith:2016:NLFKQSWHFIWOJLNO2PTNPJC7UG

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A Probably Approximately Correct Answer to Distributed Stochastic Optimization in a Non-stationary Environment

B. N. Bharath, Vaishali P

arxiv:1610.01405 v1 · 2016-10-05 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NLFKQSWHFIWOJLNO2PTNPJC7UG}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:03:10.936940Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6acaa84ac72a2ce4adaed3e6d7a45fa1a34155cd0212942fbbc4de33dee3e0d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.01405 · arxiv_version: 1610.01405v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.01405 · pith_short_12: NLFKQSWHFIWO · pith_short_16: NLFKQSWHFIWOJLNO · pith_short_8: NLFKQSWH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NLFKQSWHFIWOJLNO2PTNPJC7UG \
  | 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: 6acaa84ac72a2ce4adaed3e6d7a45fa1a34155cd0212942fbbc4de33dee3e0d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66b95fa057ebb4e640f96b78d968580737a3ac719320ec9656bb307058db7cdb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-05T13:19:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e106d456d0c28a39cc6bf4eb3098b8bbceb71f38c83149ee2ebdad48521453d3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.01405",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}