Pith Number

pith:FOCFNAR2

pith:2026:FOCFNAR24LXYQVC2FIFJNVK3A7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Can Model Merging Improve Aggregation in DiLoCo?

Benjamin Th\'erien, Eugene Belilovsky, Guy Wolf, Stefan Horoi

arxiv:2607.03011 v1 · 2026-07-03 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FOCFNAR24LXYQVC2FIFJNVK3A7}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-07T01:16:39.602116Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b8456823ae2ef88545a2a0a96d55b07c0ec2dcf3c03c4d9367db33a22ace827

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.03011 · arxiv_version: 2607.03011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.03011 · pith_short_12: FOCFNAR24LXY · pith_short_16: FOCFNAR24LXYQVC2 · pith_short_8: FOCFNAR2

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/FOCFNAR24LXYQVC2FIFJNVK3A7 \
  | 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: 2b8456823ae2ef88545a2a0a96d55b07c0ec2dcf3c03c4d9367db33a22ace827

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b2a648731cfe01e48b20182498b571ada6521f0ffbf620c76e02e309ed771d7c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-03T06:46:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cd2d4b1f6409c45fb1bb20f76ee82e657e5cf18e32f48d85f4de0dbb474631d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.03011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}