Pith Number

pith:PXFXHMDQ

pith:2018:PXFXHMDQT6VNUYB6OEG3KXGDZI

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An Explicit Convergence Rate for Nesterov's Method from SDP

Bikash Joshi, Guilherme Fran\c{c}a, Jos\'e Bento, Sam Safavi

arxiv:1801.04492 v1 · 2018-01-13 · math.OC · cs.LG · cs.NA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PXFXHMDQT6VNUYB6OEG3KXGDZI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:06.308735Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7dcb73b0709faada603e710db55cc3ca2b852fcd65527a6039171c71903fc9d2

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04492 · arxiv_version: 1801.04492v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04492 · pith_short_12: PXFXHMDQT6VN · pith_short_16: PXFXHMDQT6VNUYB6 · pith_short_8: PXFXHMDQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PXFXHMDQT6VNUYB6OEG3KXGDZI \
  | 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: 7dcb73b0709faada603e710db55cc3ca2b852fcd65527a6039171c71903fc9d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "592248e2a7a0178b06a47c449fa6e2fb0545f3c5c75afddf9e786866b7c4a866",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-13T23:26:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84fc823335e766ea8b3031c13e1c9ea8d48c4765985d231e6087b499fab43f98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04492",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}