Pith Number

pith:WXVVIANM

pith:2017:WXVVIANM7WLTTJT5VV2LX6AUNZ

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Stochastic L-BFGS: Improved Convergence Rates and Practical Acceleration Strategies

Renbo Zhao, Vincent Y. F. Tan, William B. Haskell

arxiv:1704.00116 v3 · 2017-04-01 · math.OC · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXVVIANM7WLTTJT5VV2LX6AUNZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:39.593346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5eb5401acfd9739a67dad74bbf8146e50aa491655141a747b33bcc673958bc4

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.00116 · arxiv_version: 1704.00116v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.00116 · pith_short_12: WXVVIANM7WLT · pith_short_16: WXVVIANM7WLTTJT5 · pith_short_8: WXVVIANM

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/WXVVIANM7WLTTJT5VV2LX6AUNZ \
  | 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: b5eb5401acfd9739a67dad74bbf8146e50aa491655141a747b33bcc673958bc4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fab5f5542294082db056efcfc15fab952624da477c07f54c61630b3e07051185",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-01T03:53:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50bb3bfc300e9cf0b9d0457bcc77e6f46d14a7922a6f251d0a2a0695ea65a072"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.00116",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}