Pith Number

pith:IC42QEPG

pith:2026:IC42QEPGDWSUB2ZXWQKFMW55Y5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Continuous Diffusion Scales Competitively with Discrete Diffusion for Language

Arash Vahdat, John Thickstun, Morteza Mardani, Shuibai Zhang, Subham Sekhar Sahoo, Wei Guo, Yongxin Chen, Zhihan Yang

arxiv:2605.18530 v1 · 2026-05-18 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IC42QEPGDWSUB2ZXWQKFMW55Y5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-20T00:06:06.202758Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40b9a811e61da540eb37b414565bbdc77493cb3b50b15e83b18dfc0c02c57108

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.18530 · arxiv_version: 2605.18530v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.18530 · pith_short_12: IC42QEPGDWSU · pith_short_16: IC42QEPGDWSUB2ZX · pith_short_8: IC42QEPG

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/IC42QEPGDWSUB2ZXWQKFMW55Y5 \
  | 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: 40b9a811e61da540eb37b414565bbdc77493cb3b50b15e83b18dfc0c02c57108

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f7189adab91afb1f0063a5d93d7c03c30d1ab6c2724d19e3ff91d2ea60f3388",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-18T15:15:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "19b683f4757e13a492950cc524d7b0a48105edf1a17f534bf081ffbbad4df728"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.18530",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}