Pith Number

pith:BLI5YJSV

pith:2015:BLI5YJSVSCJUXEMOX7X2H4633U

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On Variance Reduction in Stochastic Gradient Descent and its Asynchronous Variants

Ahmed Hefny, Alex Smola, Barnab\'as P\'oczos, Sashank J. Reddi, Suvrit Sra

arxiv:1506.06840 v2 · 2015-06-23 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:07.877995Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0ad1dc265590934b918ebfefa3f3dbdd11c927d77ee9aced92c546196e5ab6a4

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.06840 · arxiv_version: 1506.06840v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.06840 · pith_short_12: BLI5YJSVSCJU · pith_short_16: BLI5YJSVSCJUXEMO · pith_short_8: BLI5YJSV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BLI5YJSVSCJUXEMOX7X2H4633U \
  | 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: 0ad1dc265590934b918ebfefa3f3dbdd11c927d77ee9aced92c546196e5ab6a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63380360579ccbff8d13402a79304af81af042f449824f036fbcbfe10ca3d88e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-23T01:57:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae98ef76aa69040435b4f237661951e7b9424324ccd3a9597562824d0ebf4cc2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.06840",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}