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pith:SSOWXDDM

pith:2021:SSOWXDDMNCIVLI77BVECQTMBS5

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The Min-Max Complexity of Distributed Stochastic Convex Optimization with Intermittent Communication

Blake Woodworth, Brian Bullins, Nathan Srebro, Ohad Shamir

arxiv:2102.01583 v2 · 2021-02-02 · cs.LG · math.OC

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

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:03:27.019687Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

949d6b8c6c689155a3ff0d48284d81977847f304b58b20f5880c3354edbba977

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arxiv: 2102.01583 · arxiv_version: 2102.01583v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.01583 · pith_short_12: SSOWXDDMNCIV · pith_short_16: SSOWXDDMNCIVLI77 · pith_short_8: SSOWXDDM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SSOWXDDMNCIVLI77BVECQTMBS5 \
  | 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: 949d6b8c6c689155a3ff0d48284d81977847f304b58b20f5880c3354edbba977

Canonical record JSON

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      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-02-02T16:18:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc2fa5f76c4071a856e836582609539a9f96ed24fbe1d10b474329b490b12987"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}