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-## rabit: Robust Allreduce and Broadcast Interface
+## rabit: Reliable Allreduce and Broadcast Interface
 
 rabit is a light weight library that provides a fault tolerant interface of Allreduce and Broadcast. It is designed to support easy implementation of distributed machine learning programs, many of which sits naturally under Allreduce abstraction.