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pith:Z6DKBFDG

pith:2017:Z6DKBFDGSEL4324CBYXXANFF5F

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First-order Stochastic Algorithms for Escaping From Saddle Points in Almost Linear Time

Rong Jin, Tianbao Yang, Yi Xu

arxiv:1711.01944 v3 · 2017-11-03 · math.OC · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{Z6DKBFDGSEL4324CBYXXANFF5F}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:10.574396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf86a094669117cdeb820e2f7034a5e95f9ad2785ee0cd665e01afd74dba1b4d

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.01944 · arxiv_version: 1711.01944v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.01944 · pith_short_12: Z6DKBFDGSEL4 · pith_short_16: Z6DKBFDGSEL4324C · pith_short_8: Z6DKBFDG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z6DKBFDGSEL4324CBYXXANFF5F \
  | 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: cf86a094669117cdeb820e2f7034a5e95f9ad2785ee0cd665e01afd74dba1b4d

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-03T05:18:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0791c0ef41c11b0d89bd28c24cc3cae3242bfd1bc423829b89576354f323987e"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}