Pith Number

pith:VAGFAPYP

pith:2017:VAGFAPYPDJASTNTMYLQD7FZ7ZE

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Mini-batch stochastic gradient descent with dynamic sample sizes

Michael R. Metel

arxiv:1708.00555 v1 · 2017-08-02 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAGFAPYPDJASTNTMYLQD7FZ7ZE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:38:45.418060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a80c503f0f1a4129b66cc2e03f973fc904354c3bd991159850ec5d3885593730

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.00555 · arxiv_version: 1708.00555v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.00555 · pith_short_12: VAGFAPYPDJAS · pith_short_16: VAGFAPYPDJASTNTM · pith_short_8: VAGFAPYP

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/VAGFAPYPDJASTNTMYLQD7FZ7ZE \
  | 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: a80c503f0f1a4129b66cc2e03f973fc904354c3bd991159850ec5d3885593730

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5338f95177f089a27651f07cda1a0497b067cdcaa56b89affd7ab1a99db3f50b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-02T00:09:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f82944360a2d15513be8cf23002fb6d5587d220f99ece338e52f379bc79f91db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.00555",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}