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pith:DBEP34LP

pith:2017:DBEP34LPG3NQPM35V6I2XSUVTZ

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On the convergence rate of distributed gradient methods for finite-sum optimization under communication delays

Carolyn L. Beck, R. Srikant, Thinh T. Doan

arxiv:1708.03277 v3 · 2017-08-10 · math.OC

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:46:31.026962Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1848fdf16f36db07b37daf91abca959e49ff1d469b68404d7dff12ae09586fd7

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.03277 · arxiv_version: 1708.03277v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.03277 · pith_short_12: DBEP34LPG3NQ · pith_short_16: DBEP34LPG3NQPM35 · pith_short_8: DBEP34LP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DBEP34LPG3NQPM35V6I2XSUVTZ \
  | 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: 1848fdf16f36db07b37daf91abca959e49ff1d469b68404d7dff12ae09586fd7

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-10T16:01:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b510a2a294684368e48cc010a3598be9b533bf7f618a3207206c85be43f61832"
  },
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  }
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