Pith Number

pith:XR6HHJBM

pith:2017:XR6HHJBMTA2DVS4XZVFCYXMYKD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Balancing Communication and Computation in Distributed Optimization

Albert S. Berahas, Ermin Wei, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Raghu Bollapragada

arxiv:1709.02999 v4 · 2017-09-09 · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XR6HHJBMTA2DVS4XZVFCYXMYKD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:28.768039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bc7c73a42c98343acb97cd4a2c5d9850d326c0d8ad564ee613698e177652cf27

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02999 · arxiv_version: 1709.02999v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02999 · pith_short_12: XR6HHJBMTA2D · pith_short_16: XR6HHJBMTA2DVS4X · pith_short_8: XR6HHJBM

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/XR6HHJBMTA2DVS4XZVFCYXMYKD \
  | 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: bc7c73a42c98343acb97cd4a2c5d9850d326c0d8ad564ee613698e177652cf27

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3341ff6c2c7906d2e6dde8638cfbb16105c9189e3db02056290b120ecb44b95b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-09T20:01:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ce8d58675a95cd7b96b494f959b46b2a325b86d5c339ac7273350f8fcf46d93"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02999",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}