Pith Number

pith:SYP2XWEV

pith:2014:SYP2XWEV4LOSHF4YIFBD26DBHJ

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Escaping Local Optima in a Class of Multi-Agent Distributed Optimization Problems: A Boosting Function Approach

Christos G. Cassandras, Kagan Gokbayrak, Xinmiao Sun

arxiv:1409.0776 v3 · 2014-09-02 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SYP2XWEV4LOSHF4YIFBD26DBHJ}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-05-18T02:43:18.513655Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

961fabd895e2dd23979841423d78613a5340e535a2bef827cb06fdee9d09e53b

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.0776 · arxiv_version: 1409.0776v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.0776 · pith_short_12: SYP2XWEV4LOS · pith_short_16: SYP2XWEV4LOSHF4Y · pith_short_8: SYP2XWEV

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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/SYP2XWEV4LOSHF4YIFBD26DBHJ \
  | 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: 961fabd895e2dd23979841423d78613a5340e535a2bef827cb06fdee9d09e53b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "534aaa9bc28675ecc5f8305f9f4624f7e4924ebf591b35aa0633d78b11cccd60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-02T16:28:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89c059a8ff397a02a3a3f1962804747a617a527ffcbc3dcea1ee19485aa57f4f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.0776",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}