Pith Number

pith:IXYDHNMG

pith:2026:IXYDHNMG53HO7VDZ67OL53ZLMN

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Improving Sampling for Masked Diffusion Models via Information Gain

Alex Lamb, Jayden Teoh, Kaicheng Yang, Kaisen Yang, Yitong Zhang

arxiv:2602.18176 v3 · 2026-02-20 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IXYDHNMG53HO7VDZ67OL53ZLMN}

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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	2026-05-25T02:02:13.797680Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45f033b586eeceefd479f7dcbeef2b637a74b5963d017c88bc80d994d93842a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.18176 · arxiv_version: 2602.18176v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.18176 · pith_short_12: IXYDHNMG53HO · pith_short_16: IXYDHNMG53HO7VDZ · pith_short_8: IXYDHNMG

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/IXYDHNMG53HO7VDZ67OL53ZLMN \
  | 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: 45f033b586eeceefd479f7dcbeef2b637a74b5963d017c88bc80d994d93842a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d35abebea659823041f947e77cb4aec848c398e8e8d818c43269d6a71cf501bc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-20T12:26:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "270c224ab26bd86d2e8d5906cf0ddfc0c367f93b38412dbe6ac553e7af06a57b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.18176",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}