Pith Number

pith:FXYFWSKK

pith:2018:FXYFWSKKEUZ3KZDLGOVK5BUU6K

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Parallel Restarted SGD with Faster Convergence and Less Communication: Demystifying Why Model Averaging Works for Deep Learning

Hao Yu, Sen Yang, Shenghuo Zhu

arxiv:1807.06629 v3 · 2018-07-17 · math.OC · cs.DC · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{FXYFWSKKEUZ3KZDLGOVK5BUU6K}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:00:35.021045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2df05b494a2533b5646b33aaae8694f2922ab206cd247ae00ad769d5bf0e428f

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.06629 · arxiv_version: 1807.06629v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.06629 · pith_short_12: FXYFWSKKEUZ3 · pith_short_16: FXYFWSKKEUZ3KZDL · pith_short_8: FXYFWSKK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FXYFWSKKEUZ3KZDLGOVK5BUU6K \
  | 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: 2df05b494a2533b5646b33aaae8694f2922ab206cd247ae00ad769d5bf0e428f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "54faa7e68eb332a41dc71cb44c35b760d32534b5c849d6493a5589fb93183f69",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-17T19:14:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "798e08eea1ad30da92c06d20a4542745d48af1f7b2c17ec9f6568a9e0f910f47"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.06629",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}