Pith Number

pith:YMAIGZAS

pith:2021:YMAIGZASDM44TSCKLDU33XHUB3

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On the Utility of Gradient Compression in Distributed Training Systems

Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Hongyi Wang, Saurabh Agarwal, Shivaram Venkataraman

arxiv:2103.00543 v3 · 2021-02-28 · cs.DC · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YMAIGZASDM44TSCKLDU33XHUB3}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:53:56.073601Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3008364121b39c9c84a58e9bddcf40ef9e429b8c24c674ec8a8cb56166399e1

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.00543 · arxiv_version: 2103.00543v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.00543 · pith_short_12: YMAIGZASDM44 · pith_short_16: YMAIGZASDM44TSCK · pith_short_8: YMAIGZAS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YMAIGZASDM44TSCKLDU33XHUB3 \
  | 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: c3008364121b39c9c84a58e9bddcf40ef9e429b8c24c674ec8a8cb56166399e1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c6dc8c429387ba3065006cd0c35d602cd5b74ce016601301f3fb354369f9b267",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-28T15:58:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "182dc9149c408d2c01cd4edd74c1716c970e784ec2958a1535b11e559626e73e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.00543",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}