Pith Number

pith:NV52PWC7

pith:2016:NV52PWC7GX7A7TP4D4YWBJ42GA

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Learning an Optimization Algorithm through Human Design Iterations

Max Yi Ren, Thurston Sexton

arxiv:1608.06984 v4 · 2016-08-24 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NV52PWC7GX7A7TP4D4YWBJ42GA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:45:30.395425Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d7ba7d85f35fe0fcdfc1f3160a79a3025d37dc86d94d4826b0b45f8377f044c

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06984 · arxiv_version: 1608.06984v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06984 · pith_short_12: NV52PWC7GX7A · pith_short_16: NV52PWC7GX7A7TP4 · pith_short_8: NV52PWC7

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/NV52PWC7GX7A7TP4D4YWBJ42GA \
  | 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: 6d7ba7d85f35fe0fcdfc1f3160a79a3025d37dc86d94d4826b0b45f8377f044c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2840f74f37c72c7d8f9a52d476db8b34e83b3b95bb8b8a484263355758fabd0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-24T23:22:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af37a89ae845e7c72f0f9c853e873bdbc41dc03f2cf6834d7eb1be47f8e7c1ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}