Pith Number

pith:PAKCIVEK

pith:2026:PAKCIVEKTHSJQNBUE764NIEDEI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Theoretical Foundations of Communication-Efficient, Robust, and Practical Distributed and Federated Optimization

Grigory Malinovsky

arxiv:2608.06563 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.LG · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PAKCIVEKTHSJQNBUE764NIEDEI}

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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	2026-08-10T01:11:17.255344Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

781424548a99e498343427fdc6a083223219846b676b30871d5038472bf005c6

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06563 · arxiv_version: 2608.06563v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06563 · pith_short_12: PAKCIVEKTHSJ · pith_short_16: PAKCIVEKTHSJQNBU · pith_short_8: PAKCIVEK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PAKCIVEKTHSJQNBUE764NIEDEI \
  | 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: 781424548a99e498343427fdc6a083223219846b676b30871d5038472bf005c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a322040c8bfbaf22899698ebc74e22fd90e939cbe764b961d1d23b513a973888",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T20:20:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3e906210e0ba1100b60a7bc680e48c7fda52523e9afc895b5f1d2e07cd5e6538"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06563",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}