Pith Number

pith:CPL3YYIW

pith:2026:CPL3YYIWWBCRUG7KYCTEIOUU7B

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Explore or Converge? Stage-Guided Per-Step Optimization for Diffusion Models

Jikang Cheng, Ling Liang, Renye Yan, Wei Peng, Yimao Cai, You Wu, Zongwei Wang

arxiv:2608.06768 v1 · 2026-08-07 · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CPL3YYIWWBCRUG7KYCTEIOUU7B}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-10T01:11:58.653803Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

13d7bc6116b0451a1beac0a6443a94f8623a88eb516f082619260a338922ecf3

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06768 · arxiv_version: 2608.06768v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06768 · pith_short_12: CPL3YYIWWBCR · pith_short_16: CPL3YYIWWBCRUG7K · pith_short_8: CPL3YYIW

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CPL3YYIWWBCRUG7KYCTEIOUU7B \
  | 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: 13d7bc6116b0451a1beac0a6443a94f8623a88eb516f082619260a338922ecf3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d30d02bc34e3db7ac421cfb1482b2a3541784b5c588010acee555d640e17d0a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T03:41:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c8f05a08cfc9831dc319cb1323585d28f0b19a919ed6cd3ceca2e0d96fa70f4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06768",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}