Pith Number

pith:5NHVYHH5

pith:2018:5NHVYHH5KZ3IAHDGI7BUUHJSJC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beyond Backprop: Online Alternating Minimization with Auxiliary Variables

Anna Choromanska, Benjamin Cowen, Brian Kingsbury, Djallel Bouneffouf, Irina Rish, Mattia Rigotti, Paolo DiAchille, Ravi Tejwani, Ronny Luss, Sadhana Kumaravel, Viatcheslav Gurev

arxiv:1806.09077 v4 · 2018-06-24 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5NHVYHH5KZ3IAHDGI7BUUHJSJC}

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:10.155044Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb4f5c1cfd5676801c6647c34a1d324893641d7f165ec57632bccc8914ae7490

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.09077 · arxiv_version: 1806.09077v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.09077 · pith_short_12: 5NHVYHH5KZ3I · pith_short_16: 5NHVYHH5KZ3IAHDG · pith_short_8: 5NHVYHH5

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/5NHVYHH5KZ3IAHDGI7BUUHJSJC \
  | 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: eb4f5c1cfd5676801c6647c34a1d324893641d7f165ec57632bccc8914ae7490

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1af73799d4480611198a361c45e9b1d47893098c813e862a957fedee8b45ec60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-24T03:55:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a230764ab739f365231f147d9e8ac5bfb95e8418b863e7960c940e260ede2d7c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.09077",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}