Pith Number

pith:ASPBVG2D

pith:2017:ASPBVG2DIDPKNWMKEX4LYHYGIW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can Decentralized Algorithms Outperform Centralized Algorithms? A Case Study for Decentralized Parallel Stochastic Gradient Descent

Ce Zhang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Huan Zhang, Ji Liu, Wei Zhang, Xiangru Lian

arxiv:1705.09056 v5 · 2017-05-25 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ASPBVG2DIDPKNWMKEX4LYHYGIW}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:41.237822Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

049e1a9b4340dea6d98a25f8bc1f06459f79b0ab7ab502c703474a6b8c1d55fe

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09056 · arxiv_version: 1705.09056v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09056 · pith_short_12: ASPBVG2DIDPK · pith_short_16: ASPBVG2DIDPKNWMK · pith_short_8: ASPBVG2D

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/ASPBVG2DIDPKNWMKEX4LYHYGIW \
  | 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: 049e1a9b4340dea6d98a25f8bc1f06459f79b0ab7ab502c703474a6b8c1d55fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3178e917c7c092c47a95d2455e1f07b1e6182f164437ffea1d9a234f1175610",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-25T05:58:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "037b590ec2909dd9929102b31bd84fa78024e206d2e0418da0ba0343b952fd23"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}