Pith Number

pith:VWS5F5RD

pith:2018:VWS5F5RD6B4WUTPDO4U4E4QPMV

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Distributed Zeroth Order Optimization Over Random Networks: A Kiefer-Wolfowitz Stochastic Approximation Approach

Anit Kumar Sahu, Dragana Bajovic, Dusan Jakovetic, Soummya Kar

arxiv:1803.07844 v1 · 2018-03-21 · math.OC

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\pithnumber{VWS5F5RD6B4WUTPDO4U4E4QPMV}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:28.747569Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ada5d2f623f0796a4de37729c2720f65419003636f40cef9dfc548c069de28ea

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.07844 · arxiv_version: 1803.07844v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.07844 · pith_short_12: VWS5F5RD6B4W · pith_short_16: VWS5F5RD6B4WUTPD · pith_short_8: VWS5F5RD

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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/VWS5F5RD6B4WUTPDO4U4E4QPMV \
  | 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: ada5d2f623f0796a4de37729c2720f65419003636f40cef9dfc548c069de28ea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f1686268d8e45319b94364c834d9b17256b0215f1a00cbde12d144f49ad9edc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-21T10:41:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "884b2803a3797475c523540a604bbdead1bc7c92d3a520d7806814f99328fe0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.07844",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}