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pith:2019:SM6TLARO4QQGIRR55U7KEQL4PG

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ErasureHead: Distributed Gradient Descent without Delays Using Approximate Gradient Coding

Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Hongyi Wang, Zachary Charles

arxiv:1901.09671 v1 · 2019-01-28 · cs.LG · cs.DC · cs.IT · math.IT · math.OC · stat.ML

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Communication-Efficient Approximate Gradient Coding for Distributed Learning in Heterogeneous Systems

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933d35822ee42064463ded3ea2417c7991f72e9b9b436e8646fe68172213f7f5

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arxiv: 1901.09671 · arxiv_version: 1901.09671v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.09671 · pith_short_12: SM6TLARO4QQG · pith_short_16: SM6TLARO4QQGIRR5 · pith_short_8: SM6TLARO

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SM6TLARO4QQGIRR55U7KEQL4PG \
  | 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())"
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