Pith Number

pith:S6KPPOQN

pith:2017:S6KPPOQNJRL32HPPB2M36KOVRB

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True Asymptotic Natural Gradient Optimization

Yann Ollivier

arxiv:1712.08449 v1 · 2017-12-22 · stat.ML · cs.LG · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S6KPPOQNJRL32HPPB2M36KOVRB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:23.416827Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9794f7ba0d4c57bd1def0e99bf29d5886fa80f136de00af0c8350a64cafb017d

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08449 · arxiv_version: 1712.08449v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08449 · pith_short_12: S6KPPOQNJRL3 · pith_short_16: S6KPPOQNJRL32HPP · pith_short_8: S6KPPOQN

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/S6KPPOQNJRL32HPPB2M36KOVRB \
  | 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: 9794f7ba0d4c57bd1def0e99bf29d5886fa80f136de00af0c8350a64cafb017d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e87670afe5d11e5142e01e5ad7cae4bad2b486e1bc9606fa842eaf23c360264",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-22T14:04:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf163d639c67a93385b0c148cc3a903608a3474a10af1d3e49e166246d7fbbb7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08449",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}