Pith Number

pith:BFWA3IBY

pith:2019:BFWA3IBYSMGOSVTTP72MDCOW6V

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Decentralized Stochastic Optimization and Gossip Algorithms with Compressed Communication

Anastasia Koloskova, Martin Jaggi, Sebastian U. Stich

arxiv:1902.00340 v1 · 2019-02-01 · cs.LG · cs.DC · cs.DS · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BFWA3IBYSMGOSVTTP72MDCOW6V}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-17T23:54:57.724085Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

096c0da038930ce956737ff4c189d6f56570c5e2a306b9c833c17c1d4cdc53eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.00340 · arxiv_version: 1902.00340v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.00340 · pith_short_12: BFWA3IBYSMGO · pith_short_16: BFWA3IBYSMGOSVTT · pith_short_8: BFWA3IBY

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/BFWA3IBYSMGOSVTTP72MDCOW6V \
  | 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: 096c0da038930ce956737ff4c189d6f56570c5e2a306b9c833c17c1d4cdc53eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d59beb6b2a66dffae3973a1b244d23e9424966ac40890cb836f7da0ccd61ac88",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.DS",
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-01T14:11:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f40ddff56301a143745a3d2dc246b393961707efb7d25d6740d2c946b4779b44"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.00340",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}