Pith Number

pith:HNJSFZ2B

pith:2017:HNJSFZ2BL26VFWBTGJUB6E6GTJ

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Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Optimization Through Data Encoding

Can Karakus, Suhas Diggavi, Wotao Yin, Yifan Sun

arxiv:1711.04969 v2 · 2017-11-14 · stat.ML · cs.DC · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HNJSFZ2BL26VFWBTGJUB6E6GTJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:16.201441Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3b5322e7415ebd52d83332681f13c69a59891a32613088110e9ea1bb2bbfc55a

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.04969 · arxiv_version: 1711.04969v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04969 · pith_short_12: HNJSFZ2BL26V · pith_short_16: HNJSFZ2BL26VFWBT · pith_short_8: HNJSFZ2B

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/HNJSFZ2BL26VFWBTGJUB6E6GTJ \
  | 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: 3b5322e7415ebd52d83332681f13c69a59891a32613088110e9ea1bb2bbfc55a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79c9966e40976bca166cc1359a8201f4e118fe37603ee3ef1501be73010fde09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.IT",
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-14T06:29:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "35ad8c49c9d9d6a196f36a5c569a1238928ede764e95e5afdeeff15112b7713f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.04969",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}