Pith Number

pith:II2IMRAV

pith:2015:II2IMRAVMUQ3V35CKLE26FHSWN

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Network Independent Rates in Distributed Learning

Alex Olshevsky, Angelia Nedi\'c, C\'esar A. Uribe

arxiv:1509.08574 v1 · 2015-09-29 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{II2IMRAVMUQ3V35CKLE26FHSWN}

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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	2026-05-18T01:31:47.587228Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42348644156521baefa252c9af14f2b346d8ab72227ecf11eba2ebf56a3f22ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.08574 · arxiv_version: 1509.08574v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.08574 · pith_short_12: II2IMRAVMUQ3 · pith_short_16: II2IMRAVMUQ3V35C · pith_short_8: II2IMRAV

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/II2IMRAVMUQ3V35CKLE26FHSWN \
  | 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: 42348644156521baefa252c9af14f2b346d8ab72227ecf11eba2ebf56a3f22ec

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a0eb05eaaea178cb54704dd2f89e05a246f2da894e563e408796ada2d59759a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-29T02:59:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aef692b3450e1b457939f31bdf14ffc076cf834c64a32e6d3eb898719451c5af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.08574",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}