Pith Number

pith:BJHN4BH5

pith:2017:BJHN4BH52YYUKVH73V2JKL7CCP

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Improving Distributed Gradient Descent Using Reed-Solomon Codes

Babak Hassibi, Fariborz Salehi, Navid Azizan-Ruhi, Wael Halbawi

arxiv:1706.05436 v1 · 2017-06-16 · cs.IT · cs.DC · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJHN4BH52YYUKVH73V2JKL7CCP}

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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	2026-05-18T00:42:11.642789Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a4ede04fdd6314554ffdd74952fe213de7c590abcf982e7d59b11a05dd43ebb

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05436 · arxiv_version: 1706.05436v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05436 · pith_short_12: BJHN4BH52YYU · pith_short_16: BJHN4BH52YYUKVH7 · pith_short_8: BJHN4BH5

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/BJHN4BH52YYUKVH73V2JKL7CCP \
  | 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: 0a4ede04fdd6314554ffdd74952fe213de7c590abcf982e7d59b11a05dd43ebb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "120fdd2e3e9f2d4c4881c0dfa6ff35011f3fb85aa76094487bb9399a7baa0752",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-16T21:45:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f013d0053110f7723f8ef8d8731062e474733f525be92482834f894646b80d49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05436",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}