Pith Number

pith:ISKAJ5C5

pith:2020:ISKAJ5C5P34IYQWOH4ZVK63LCX

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A Better Alternative to Error Feedback for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning

Peter Richt\'arik, Samuel Horv\'ath

arxiv:2006.11077 v2 · 2020-06-19 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ISKAJ5C5P34IYQWOH4ZVK63LCX}

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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	2026-07-05T02:22:36.632516Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

449404f45d7ef88c42ce3f33557b6b15eb938f7e29696c2aadb9fbc1c3c798e1

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.11077 · arxiv_version: 2006.11077v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.11077 · pith_short_12: ISKAJ5C5P34I · pith_short_16: ISKAJ5C5P34IYQWO · pith_short_8: ISKAJ5C5

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/ISKAJ5C5P34IYQWOH4ZVK63LCX \
  | 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: 449404f45d7ef88c42ce3f33557b6b15eb938f7e29696c2aadb9fbc1c3c798e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8873b157b7b21dbfa5d1af87058f99fcedb6df5247c2c14d43719851905cc021",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-19T11:24:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "02cfc48d75b97b4bffc199da825333283293f3bc9fc0ccb7ca8accf93ff498fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.11077",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}