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pith:6NGEJGW7

pith:2017:6NGEJGW7WB3EMOF7HOPR5RK3QU

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Gradient Sparsification for Communication-Efficient Distributed Optimization

Jialei Wang, Jianqiao Wangni, Ji Liu, Tong Zhang

arxiv:1710.09854 v1 · 2017-10-26 · cs.LG · cs.NA · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:50.117505Z
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Canonical hash

f34c449adfb0764638bf3b9f1ec55b853c06946d6bc26c3049ad983aae020e97

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arxiv: 1710.09854 · arxiv_version: 1710.09854v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09854 · pith_short_12: 6NGEJGW7WB3E · pith_short_16: 6NGEJGW7WB3EMOF7 · pith_short_8: 6NGEJGW7

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6NGEJGW7WB3EMOF7HOPR5RK3QU \
  | 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: f34c449adfb0764638bf3b9f1ec55b853c06946d6bc26c3049ad983aae020e97

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-26T18:26:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67c0f133085622dc804dfbe3d3fd1055f450428eb6d177400ccf51f57b74a892"
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