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pith:4AJB4VPT

pith:2019:4AJB4VPTKT4Q4ME7O6XLGBFQLB

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On the Convergence of Local Descent Methods in Federated Learning

Farzin Haddadpour, Mehrdad Mahdavi

arxiv:1910.14425 v2 · 2019-10-31 · cs.LG · cs.DC · stat.ML

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Canonical hash

e0121e55f354f90e309f77aeb304b0586bcdea6d9cf157a9c6ccda233fcb53b2

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arxiv: 1910.14425 · arxiv_version: 1910.14425v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.14425 · pith_short_12: 4AJB4VPTKT4Q · pith_short_16: 4AJB4VPTKT4Q4ME7 · pith_short_8: 4AJB4VPT

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4AJB4VPTKT4Q4ME7O6XLGBFQLB \
  | 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: e0121e55f354f90e309f77aeb304b0586bcdea6d9cf157a9c6ccda233fcb53b2

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
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    "submitted_at": "2019-10-31T12:52:55Z",
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