Pith Number

pith:X6C7HE6G

pith:2018:X6C7HE6GW3MZ7Z3NDLH3MRE6VI

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Don't Use Large Mini-Batches, Use Local SGD

Kumar Kshitij Patel, Martin Jaggi, Sebastian U. Stich, Tao Lin

arxiv:1808.07217 v6 · 2018-08-22 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X6C7HE6GW3MZ7Z3NDLH3MRE6VI}

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4 Citations open

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:40:53.187609Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf85f393c6b6d99fe76d1acfb6449eaa312766b32db4a95759d6b8ee9c74d611

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.07217 · arxiv_version: 1808.07217v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.07217 · pith_short_12: X6C7HE6GW3MZ · pith_short_16: X6C7HE6GW3MZ7Z3N · pith_short_8: X6C7HE6G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X6C7HE6GW3MZ7Z3NDLH3MRE6VI \
  | 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: bf85f393c6b6d99fe76d1acfb6449eaa312766b32db4a95759d6b8ee9c74d611

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0129bd50d66cbe7b561b5269da5d44840bfc61ba1cee2cd8c586e8fd5d499f19",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-22T04:50:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9406e39837368c7f5ed49513798826363b768aeffd47ad72a4ab6af72d48d655"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.07217",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}