Pith Number

pith:MXSZ36Q3

pith:2026:MXSZ36Q3R5V43FCS5HBFPUOGI4

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Guard: Scalable Straggler Detection and Node Health Management for Large-Scale Training

Abhinandan Patni, Alexander Zhipa, Anthony Ko, Ashvin Nihalani, Binxuan Huang, Cong Cheng, Congzhu Lin, Guanliang Liu, Jack Wittmayer, Josh Wu, Mi Sun, Parthasarathy Govindarajen, Rejith George Joseph, Rory Na, Vijay Rajakumar, Yinghong Liu, Zoe Zeng

arxiv:2605.17879 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.DC · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MXSZ36Q3R5V43FCS5HBFPUOGI4}

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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	2026-05-20T00:05:03.295563Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65e59dfa1b8f6bcd9452e9c257d1c6472e64efa35fc500ce7a1a36979da4fffd

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.17879 · arxiv_version: 2605.17879v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17879 · pith_short_12: MXSZ36Q3R5V4 · pith_short_16: MXSZ36Q3R5V43FCS · pith_short_8: MXSZ36Q3

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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/MXSZ36Q3R5V43FCS5HBFPUOGI4 \
  | 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: 65e59dfa1b8f6bcd9452e9c257d1c6472e64efa35fc500ce7a1a36979da4fffd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebf386d7d4e2fb534079894272145c9d8a4da7614cec862474d8a7f5c6b3a962",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T05:40:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fdc0cfc9f785a4663754bbf9c239908277ba75e1c3f43a06d34ce0ec46461fe9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.17879",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}