Pith Number

pith:IDTLACNO

pith:2018:IDTLACNOENOM2XD2I24ONTXEDQ

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Parameter Box: High Performance Parameter Servers for Efficient Distributed Deep Neural Network Training

Amar Phanishayee, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Jacob Nelson, Liang Luo, Luis Ceze

arxiv:1801.09805 v3 · 2018-01-30 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IDTLACNOENOM2XD2I24ONTXEDQ}

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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	2026-07-05T00:34:11.861247Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40e6b009ae235ccd5c7a46b8e6cee41c3cd008cbf15ad7e1edad5f34645bfecf

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.09805 · arxiv_version: 1801.09805v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.09805 · pith_short_12: IDTLACNOENOM · pith_short_16: IDTLACNOENOM2XD2 · pith_short_8: IDTLACNO

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/IDTLACNOENOM2XD2I24ONTXEDQ \
  | 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: 40e6b009ae235ccd5c7a46b8e6cee41c3cd008cbf15ad7e1edad5f34645bfecf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47aa4cbab2edb7aff6dcb153fd5d1ebca42e12dce61948aa927d2f22bd561ddd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-30T00:10:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa2d183e2b40b95c62432fc4b76812095d9e38dc4a1384d35c95b3d93d881448"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.09805",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}