Pith Number

pith:PBUOTV44

pith:2021:PBUOTV44KRJ4AOQP2STB5SREDM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Asynchronous Zeroth-Order Distributed Optimization with Residual Feedback

Michael M. Zavlanos, Scott Nivison, Yan Zhang, Yi Shen, Zachary I. Bell

arxiv:2109.13866 v1 · 2021-09-28 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PBUOTV44KRJ4AOQP2STB5SREDM}

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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	2026-07-05T03:18:07.209284Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7868e9d79c5453c03a0fd4a61eca241b3297ad3f63ebc4683c616fb4d99e0b7d

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.13866 · arxiv_version: 2109.13866v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.13866 · pith_short_12: PBUOTV44KRJ4 · pith_short_16: PBUOTV44KRJ4AOQP · pith_short_8: PBUOTV44

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/PBUOTV44KRJ4AOQP2STB5SREDM \
  | 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: 7868e9d79c5453c03a0fd4a61eca241b3297ad3f63ebc4683c616fb4d99e0b7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "14ca18c214eaea5c774a805aac8c1df9b10cf0837d256269e8e89624cd9897be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-28T16:49:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8a86504bc9a3fee9ecd34192342402b51713c13e6b050e59e961342eee613a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.13866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}