Pith Number

pith:PWM4TRY5

pith:2018:PWM4TRY5FKNRTKCMLDVLT4KSBB

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Complexity of finding near-stationary points of convex functions stochastically

Damek Davis, Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy

arxiv:1802.08556 v1 · 2018-02-21 · math.OC

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\pithnumber{PWM4TRY5FKNRTKCMLDVLT4KSBB}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:41.188809Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d99c9c71d2a9b19a84c58eab9f15208542b2fe5f9d89d27617a41da0ef689ca

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.08556 · arxiv_version: 1802.08556v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.08556 · pith_short_12: PWM4TRY5FKNR · pith_short_16: PWM4TRY5FKNRTKCM · pith_short_8: PWM4TRY5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PWM4TRY5FKNRTKCMLDVLT4KSBB \
  | 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: 7d99c9c71d2a9b19a84c58eab9f15208542b2fe5f9d89d27617a41da0ef689ca

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2b2a875f656f5092ad99bf141e9a55415eaf7ec35032f32678815166c4dfaac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-21T21:35:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c1162f9b5f8debcbe308ddd10157383f184b8df89ef8839047cf1757a99845ae"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.08556",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}