Pith Number

pith:LPIH7UVW

pith:2025:LPIH7UVWUXYH77J5LW2HGZVWU6

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Incentivizing Permissionless Distributed Learning of LLMs

Amir Sarfi, Eugene Belilovsky, Evangelos Pappas, Jacob Steeves, Joel Lidin, Samuel Dare

arxiv:2505.21684 v1 · 2025-05-27 · cs.LG · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LPIH7UVWUXYH77J5LW2HGZVWU6}

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4 Citations open

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Overcoming the Communication-Performance Tradeoff in LLM Pretraining

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T11:11:02.128848Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5bd07fd2b6a5f07ffd3d5db47366b6a7a73e1117d079107cb1adfd3cd83b8563

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.21684 · arxiv_version: 2505.21684v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.21684 · pith_short_12: LPIH7UVWUXYH · pith_short_16: LPIH7UVWUXYH77J5 · pith_short_8: LPIH7UVW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LPIH7UVWUXYH77J5LW2HGZVWU6 \
  | 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: 5bd07fd2b6a5f07ffd3d5db47366b6a7a73e1117d079107cb1adfd3cd83b8563

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "085f7707f1dd7c869cfaa471e4662a57e34077ffbda22f873832ae084fe2322b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-27T19:11:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f7ac59c1fda8665b506b7567c454a681cffa6c1f2cb49944dbb4c0f6e69346f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.21684",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}