Pith Number

pith:ZODVZLBW

pith:2016:ZODVZLBWFQYZNPQKQ6AT7G24LI

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Probabilistic Bisection Converges Almost as Quickly as Stochastic Approximation

Peter I. Frazier, Rolf Waeber, Shane G. Henderson

arxiv:1612.03964 v1 · 2016-12-12 · math.PR · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZODVZLBWFQYZNPQKQ6AT7G24LI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:05.999202Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cb875cac362c3196be0a87813f9b5c5a265651e5b0d12ce27a21eaee7d9c996c

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03964 · arxiv_version: 1612.03964v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03964 · pith_short_12: ZODVZLBWFQYZ · pith_short_16: ZODVZLBWFQYZNPQK · pith_short_8: ZODVZLBW

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/ZODVZLBWFQYZNPQKQ6AT7G24LI \
  | 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: cb875cac362c3196be0a87813f9b5c5a265651e5b0d12ce27a21eaee7d9c996c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e09867c9083eb29e9982fd8ab93696e16d1b9506a8d47c5269982ad3e54beaef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-12T22:57:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a58972302f50fb52ed07e8af537c0765ab66090d5422afb6fbf549046d114a55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03964",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}