Pith Number

pith:QL5TJNCM

pith:2018:QL5TJNCMV7QMTQZPPL4I4ID6PD

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Asynchronous decentralized accelerated stochastic gradient descent

Guanghui Lan, Yi Zhou

arxiv:1809.09258 v1 · 2018-09-24 · math.OC · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{QL5TJNCMV7QMTQZPPL4I4ID6PD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:04:53.933334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82fb34b44cafe0c9c32f7af88e207e78e9e4fd7e7e0f9af639a8ef1584671bf1

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.09258 · arxiv_version: 1809.09258v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.09258 · pith_short_12: QL5TJNCMV7QM · pith_short_16: QL5TJNCMV7QMTQZP · pith_short_8: QL5TJNCM

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/QL5TJNCMV7QMTQZPPL4I4ID6PD \
  | 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: 82fb34b44cafe0c9c32f7af88e207e78e9e4fd7e7e0f9af639a8ef1584671bf1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bce57a66f90632761e7d90eaf06d4e246574f382153e09bd4a845e748fbe380",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-24T23:40:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a5ecc1f682a4eca581493dceec083191c4d715da948c399d08020b2c411b801"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.09258",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}