Pith Number

pith:DHPLSWTO

pith:2017:DHPLSWTOGKJJRJU4XK5CXEQ4VB

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Network Topology and Communication-Computation Tradeoffs in Decentralized Optimization

Alex Olshevsky, Angelia Nedi\'c, Michael G. Rabbat

arxiv:1709.08765 v2 · 2017-09-26 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.MA

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DHPLSWTOGKJJRJU4XK5CXEQ4VB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:26:07.657569Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

19deb95a6e329298a69cbaba2b921ca85c39f9317ae99bd1540673fa0b300a77

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08765 · arxiv_version: 1709.08765v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08765 · pith_short_12: DHPLSWTOGKJJ · pith_short_16: DHPLSWTOGKJJRJU4 · pith_short_8: DHPLSWTO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DHPLSWTOGKJJRJU4XK5CXEQ4VB \
  | 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: 19deb95a6e329298a69cbaba2b921ca85c39f9317ae99bd1540673fa0b300a77

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f5768d7a9b288e2cd1c7c9cd77c368ba3bb5ba96ffe1d37265425b63bf4d197b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-26T00:46:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "580c4b3ddbf29d5961dca66cb6915801ce148cf976f3bc8e7ca3688864c55ab2"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}