Pith Number

pith:WU5LL6RS

pith:2019:WU5LL6RSCFASOSACNHOAJ3USSO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distributed Black-Box Optimization via Error Correcting Codes

Burak Bartan, Mert Pilanci

arxiv:1907.05984 v1 · 2019-07-13 · cs.DC · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WU5LL6RSCFASOSACNHOAJ3USSO}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:40:42.780816Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b53ab5fa32114127480269dc04ee9293b8d7a6d812614a1149820a8eb573b3b9

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.05984 · arxiv_version: 1907.05984v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.05984 · pith_short_12: WU5LL6RSCFAS · pith_short_16: WU5LL6RSCFASOSAC · pith_short_8: WU5LL6RS

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/WU5LL6RSCFASOSACNHOAJ3USSO \
  | 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: b53ab5fa32114127480269dc04ee9293b8d7a6d812614a1149820a8eb573b3b9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8217e607120e54dae0ec249fd1bb43acdd203690f39c5c68fab4876c565e7333",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-13T00:36:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95aea957704a8a296041b6f1beb86e41060bb7539da24de503df960bce25b5f1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.05984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}