Pith Number

pith:UY5J3U47

pith:2019:UY5J3U47GYMKK7X3BIWXMURJBF

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Nested Dithered Quantization for Communication Reduction in Distributed Training

Afshin Abdi, Faramarz Fekri

arxiv:1904.01197 v1 · 2019-04-02 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UY5J3U47GYMKK7X3BIWXMURJBF}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:49:35.588102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a63a9dd39f3618a57efb0a2d76522909544ebf046805d3b1c39a2a10f0aa2db2

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.01197 · arxiv_version: 1904.01197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.01197 · pith_short_12: UY5J3U47GYMK · pith_short_16: UY5J3U47GYMKK7X3 · pith_short_8: UY5J3U47

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UY5J3U47GYMKK7X3BIWXMURJBF \
  | 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: a63a9dd39f3618a57efb0a2d76522909544ebf046805d3b1c39a2a10f0aa2db2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02a2d21923e2672feddec3567f1279f14b170c429747346f3e1666545fba3b55",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-02T03:47:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "742ff8105e1bb9fc00f9719085ce831ea011032d39cb625813b86159d5a88e16"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1904.01197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}