Pith Number

pith:WXNI57C2

pith:2020:WXNI57C2SJ24QK62DB7DTUREA3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Exploring the limits of Concurrency in ML Training on Google TPUs

Andy Swing, Anselm Levskaya, Blake Hechtman, Cliff Young, Dehao Chen, HyoukJoong Lee, James Bradbury, Mehmet Deveci, Naveen Kumar, Pankaj Kanwar, Sameer Kumar, Shibo Wang, Skye Wanderman-Milne, Steve Lacy, Tao Wang, Tayo Oguntebi, Yazhou Zu, Yuanzhong Xu, Yu Emma Wang

arxiv:2011.03641 v3 · 2020-11-07 · cs.LG · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WXNI57C2SJ24QK62DB7DTUREA3}

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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	2026-07-05T02:23:17.585731Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5da8efc5a9275c82bda187e39d22406cb4d4359bb8101b2b8200a6c524a5b91

Aliases

arxiv: 2011.03641 · arxiv_version: 2011.03641v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2011.03641 · pith_short_12: WXNI57C2SJ24 · pith_short_16: WXNI57C2SJ24QK62 · pith_short_8: WXNI57C2

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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/WXNI57C2SJ24QK62DB7DTUREA3 \
  | 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: b5da8efc5a9275c82bda187e39d22406cb4d4359bb8101b2b8200a6c524a5b91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c94a0894340901feab0d2f9f97790630d767c95063f83d03d8884cacbb3e75b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-11-07T00:18:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d0923d88f5513d1faa816d48831900ab94519a7541823483ad2d50c2c989a5f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2011.03641",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}