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pith:XCDASYNW

pith:2018:XCDASYNWCYPXRK65O2B7XG5BWH

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A Cross Entropy based Optimization Algorithm with Global Convergence Guarantees

Ajin George Joseph, Shalabh Bhatnagar

arxiv:1801.10291 v1 · 2018-01-31 · cs.AI · math.OC

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Global Convergence of Sampling-Based Nonconvex Optimization through Diffusion-Style Smoothing

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:41.182345Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

b8860961b6161f78abdd7683fb9ba1b1d524055a2da89ecc445987a432faf2f7

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arxiv: 1801.10291 · arxiv_version: 1801.10291v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.10291 · pith_short_12: XCDASYNWCYPX · pith_short_16: XCDASYNWCYPXRK65 · pith_short_8: XCDASYNW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XCDASYNWCYPXRK65O2B7XG5BWH \
  | 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: b8860961b6161f78abdd7683fb9ba1b1d524055a2da89ecc445987a432faf2f7

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "021a9c5f27bff3ef376bc9843dfbe66c83b5263c406a31da6f204068f5b780f7",
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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-31T03:53:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab23607b6e55ffdb28d10dd32865e0d638ffd546fb5be4c584b8a81710c7a019"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}