A „Divine Sanction” on the Revolt: The Cult of St. Demetrios of Thessalonike and the Uprising of Peter and Asen (1185–1186) [PDF]
The paper examines the role of the cult of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica as a tool of maintaining legitimacy of the anti-Byzantine revolt in Tărnovo, 1185–1186, led by brothers Theodore- Peter and Asen-Belgun, which is viewed in the modern scholarship ...
Dobyčina, Anastasia
core
Asynchronous Byzantine Machine Learning (the case of SGD) [PDF]
Asynchronous distributed machine learning solutions have proven very effective so far, but always assuming perfectly functioning workers. In practice, some of the workers can however exhibit Byzantine behavior, caused by hardware failures, software bugs, corrupt data, or even malicious attacks.
arxiv
Holdout SGD: Byzantine Tolerant Federated Learning [PDF]
This work presents a new distributed Byzantine tolerant federated learning algorithm, HoldOut SGD, for Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) optimization. HoldOut SGD uses the well known machine learning technique of holdout estimation, in a distributed fashion, in order to select parameter updates that are likely to lead to models with low loss values ...
arxiv
Chalcedonian armenian aristocracy in the service of empire: military leaders and diplomatic agents of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos [PDF]
The paper examines the social status and administrative activities of Chalcedonian Armenians in the service of the empire in IX–X centuries according to the treatise of Constantine Porphyrogennetos “On the Governance of the Empire”.
Arutiunova-Fidanian Viada
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Szlachetni, odważni, dzicy? Obraz Waregów i Franków w oczach Bizantyńczyków w X-XI w.
During Xth and XIth century the Byzantine Empire was one of the strongest states in the Levant. In mentioned period the emperors undertook numerous military campaigns, both in order to expand the borders of the empire and restitute their authority on ...
Szymon Wierzbiński
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Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 91-94, March 2025.
Laura S. Lieber
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Computer analysis of the two versions of Byzantine chess [PDF]
In the Byzantine Empire of 11-15 CE chess was played on the circular board. Two versions were known - REGULAR and SYMMETRIC. The difference between them is easy: the white queen is placed either on light (regular) or on dark square (symmetric). However, the computer analysis reveals the results of this 'small perturbation'.
arxiv
La traditionnelle déjà "Septuaginta Summer School" organisée par la Septuaginta-Unternehmen, se tiendra à Göttingen, le 21-25 juillet 2014 et sera dirigée par Dr. Alison Salvesen (Université d'Oxford). Le thème choisi pour cette année est le texte grec d’
Lingas, A.
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Bread as Food and Medicament in Oribasius’ Writings [PDF]
Treatises left by Oribasius (first and foremost his Collectiones medicae and Eclogae medicamentorum) preserve a vast body of information on the varieties of bread eaten in late antiquity, characterise them from the point of view of dietetics, list ...
Dybała, Jolanta+2 more
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The Master of the Offices in the Later Roman and Byzantine Empires. By A. E. R. Boak. pp. x, 160. Paper covers. $1.00 net. University of Michigan: Humanistic Studies xiv. Aspects of Roman Law and Administration. Part I. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1919. [PDF]
Norman H. Baynes
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