Pith Number

pith:JNV2NIPT

pith:2017:JNV2NIPTSGGYO3SX55KKSLSZNS

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Near-Optimal Straggler Mitigation for Distributed Gradient Methods

A. Salman Avestimehr, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Seyed Mohammadreza Mousavi Kalan, Songze Li

arxiv:1710.09990 v1 · 2017-10-27 · cs.IT · cs.DC · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:55.037826Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b6ba6a1f3918d876e57ef54a92e596c8ae496a03661c11283eae8b6885c7d6f

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09990 · arxiv_version: 1710.09990v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09990 · pith_short_12: JNV2NIPTSGGY · pith_short_16: JNV2NIPTSGGYO3SX · pith_short_8: JNV2NIPT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JNV2NIPTSGGYO3SX55KKSLSZNS \
  | 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: 4b6ba6a1f3918d876e57ef54a92e596c8ae496a03661c11283eae8b6885c7d6f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1cb264c53c38d5cdba493516b1b1fef8466f0252c13f474932b251112abd447",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-27T04:46:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07045fde87ea26e849d0f56d02eefb9cde7c10dce1de54f4071a29d62ca47b0f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09990",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}