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pith:NUGERDM4

pith:2019:NUGERDM4SYNX4JQT5O2S2S4QHI

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Blink: Fast and Generic Collectives for Distributed ML

Amar Phanishayee, Guanhua Wang, Ion Stoica, Jorgen Thelin, Nikhil Devanur, Shivaram Venkataraman

arxiv:1910.04940 v1 · 2019-10-11 · cs.DC · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:11:23.995700Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d0c488d9c961b7e2613ebb52d4b903a103b1b1c63af011554625076853a1e6a

Aliases

arxiv: 1910.04940 · arxiv_version: 1910.04940v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.04940 · pith_short_12: NUGERDM4SYNX · pith_short_16: NUGERDM4SYNX4JQT · pith_short_8: NUGERDM4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NUGERDM4SYNX4JQT5O2S2S4QHI \
  | 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: 6d0c488d9c961b7e2613ebb52d4b903a103b1b1c63af011554625076853a1e6a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-10-11T02:13:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ce727b1a9ee056b7252dd66a455948fc531e07ecc7da895aa78daa1d0785218c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1910.04940",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}