Pith Number

pith:WRUQWZXP

pith:2013:WRUQWZXPSZDZ6TF6VXCRAUH4YH

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When Distributed Computation is Communication Expensive

David P. Woodruff, Qin Zhang

arxiv:1304.4636 v3 · 2013-04-16 · cs.DS

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\pithnumber{WRUQWZXPSZDZ6TF6VXCRAUH4YH}

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Simple and Optimal Algorithms for Heavy Hitters and Frequency Moments in Distributed Models

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:17:33.874542Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4690b66ef96479f4cbeadc51050fcc1f3eea494ca11242368dc1d999e71c907

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.4636 · arxiv_version: 1304.4636v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.4636 · pith_short_12: WRUQWZXPSZDZ · pith_short_16: WRUQWZXPSZDZ6TF6 · pith_short_8: WRUQWZXP

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WRUQWZXPSZDZ6TF6VXCRAUH4YH \
  | 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: b4690b66ef96479f4cbeadc51050fcc1f3eea494ca11242368dc1d999e71c907

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "231b6132fb97491dc6d762ac0ad6f4e4b63647bb167d3477bd2cb3ed4fc6846f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-16T22:14:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ef0220456618da8cc0e311d59d0c18b99ae6876ca7cb7b26b240541c266ce442"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.4636",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}