Pith Number

pith:2XJYQB2Y

pith:2018:2XJYQB2YVO4TPAKMUNT56SCEMP

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Elastic Gossip: Distributing Neural Network Training Using Gossip-like Protocols

Siddharth Pramod

arxiv:1812.02407 v1 · 2018-12-06 · cs.LG · cs.DC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2XJYQB2YVO4TPAKMUNT56SCEMP}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:55.738336Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d5d3880758abb937814ca367df484463ffb6c81d759e2827a5dda1e13c19ede4

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.02407 · arxiv_version: 1812.02407v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.02407 · pith_short_12: 2XJYQB2YVO4T · pith_short_16: 2XJYQB2YVO4TPAKM · pith_short_8: 2XJYQB2Y

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/2XJYQB2YVO4TPAKMUNT56SCEMP \
  | 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: d5d3880758abb937814ca367df484463ffb6c81d759e2827a5dda1e13c19ede4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "884a8581454483352c20c750d1bd67c73f2cbd2958a798b59f8aa6302d46b679",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-06T09:00:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a421f45b32aa4c1c8bc7a19b7564a25630110afacfda3e2d56432e48f8763bba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.02407",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}