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pith:2024:VAPVKBU4G4VCWCDQ7ZMMYO43IF

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Demystifying the Communication Characteristics for Distributed Transformer Models

Aamir Shafi, Benjamin Michalowicz, Dhabaleswar Panda, Hari Subramoni, Jacob Hatef, Lang Xu, Mustafa AbdulJabbar, Quentin Anthony

arxiv:2408.10197 v1 · 2024-08-19 · cs.DC · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:56:52.991909Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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a81f55069c372a2b0870fe58cc3b9b414db18ead2cf810c4e6a4e1ae7503815e

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arxiv: 2408.10197 · arxiv_version: 2408.10197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.10197 · pith_short_12: VAPVKBU4G4VC · pith_short_16: VAPVKBU4G4VCWCDQ · pith_short_8: VAPVKBU4

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VAPVKBU4G4VCWCDQ7ZMMYO43IF \
  | 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: a81f55069c372a2b0870fe58cc3b9b414db18ead2cf810c4e6a4e1ae7503815e

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
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