Pith Number

pith:WG3LB6PM

pith:2018:WG3LB6PM6DSAJDGTFENNTF6E5F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Byzantine Stochastic Gradient Descent

Dan Alistarh, Jerry Li, Zeyuan Allen-Zhu

arxiv:1803.08917 v1 · 2018-03-23 · cs.LG · cs.DC · cs.DS · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WG3LB6PM6DSAJDGTFENNTF6E5F}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:18.239351Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b1b6b0f9ecf0e4048cd3291ad997c4e9569221ad8b8ea761c7300ef35324d0f2

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.08917 · arxiv_version: 1803.08917v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.08917 · pith_short_12: WG3LB6PM6DSA · pith_short_16: WG3LB6PM6DSAJDGT · pith_short_8: WG3LB6PM

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WG3LB6PM6DSAJDGTFENNTF6E5F \
  | 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: b1b6b0f9ecf0e4048cd3291ad997c4e9569221ad8b8ea761c7300ef35324d0f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "246105f3947c747a3394db07c904f3f63f8df85a9c63691bd1a368c5f0711f2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.DS",
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-23T17:58:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f16b9ac9e9d8f7efb74d2a72b8ec70e9f9b6d5f30c9c941428734d555831ab7e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.08917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}