Pith Number

pith:XEMBCFVT

pith:2018:XEMBCFVTKK5NDVEMZYMSB3YCHK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anytime Stochastic Gradient Descent: A Time to Hear from all the Workers

Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper

arxiv:1810.02976 v1 · 2018-10-06 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XEMBCFVTKK5NDVEMZYMSB3YCHK}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T00:03:54.968912Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b9181116b352bad1d48cce1920ef023a97a3b578c4a6d015f241a76d3b501d67

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.02976 · arxiv_version: 1810.02976v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.02976 · pith_short_12: XEMBCFVTKK5N · pith_short_16: XEMBCFVTKK5NDVEM · pith_short_8: XEMBCFVT

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/XEMBCFVTKK5NDVEMZYMSB3YCHK \
  | 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: b9181116b352bad1d48cce1920ef023a97a3b578c4a6d015f241a76d3b501d67

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5c5ee67a3d92bb547ea83ee944942fd5e220e0a7da146db8cddf0efe353b80be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-06T10:44:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47a36cf0122e3a9f0a7a0bf77541479987bda60fe923ffd354037f7341845c67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.02976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}