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pith:2025:S4D5UJMV2W4Q7XXGGZ4IRKLOS5

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Towards Weaker Variance Assumptions for Stochastic Optimization

Ahmet Alacaoglu, Stephen J. Wright, Yura Malitsky

arxiv:2504.09951 v2 · 2025-04-14 · math.OC · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-02T01:18:02.626658Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

9707da2595d5b90fdee6367888a96e97551798a17d90088c311a18b94f19f642

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arxiv: 2504.09951 · arxiv_version: 2504.09951v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.09951 · pith_short_12: S4D5UJMV2W4Q · pith_short_16: S4D5UJMV2W4Q7XXG · pith_short_8: S4D5UJMV

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S4D5UJMV2W4Q7XXGGZ4IRKLOS5 \
  | 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: 9707da2595d5b90fdee6367888a96e97551798a17d90088c311a18b94f19f642

Canonical record JSON

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    "submitted_at": "2025-04-14T07:26:34Z",
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