Pith Number

pith:ZWWNQNP3

pith:2007:ZWWNQNP3VESEWI54SJVWQIJFH5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Adaptive Alternating Minimization Algorithms

Devavrat Shah, Gregory Wornell, Urs Niesen

arxiv:cs/0701043 v2 · 2007-01-08 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZWWNQNP3VESEWI54SJVWQIJFH5}

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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	2026-05-18T04:41:55.003855Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cdacd835fba9244b23bc926b6821253f7acc9c208c13cd0f4a204a8f39f53837

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0701043 · arxiv_version: cs/0701043v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0701043 · pith_short_12: ZWWNQNP3VESE · pith_short_16: ZWWNQNP3VESEWI54 · pith_short_8: ZWWNQNP3

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/ZWWNQNP3VESEWI54SJVWQIJFH5 \
  | 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: cdacd835fba9244b23bc926b6821253f7acc9c208c13cd0f4a204a8f39f53837

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f86d1dfdde172c083373b782adfdaba68dea3bd20c1d1ec306adac84d6b0b367",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2007-01-08T18:41:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc5bd90cd2588d1010f5f72eb808da8bcad125fa034d1db6813f767fc9c56f71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0701043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}