Pith Number

pith:TKB5TNAH

pith:2026:TKB5TNAHQP2C65FUFSHWCL6GRW

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Commitment Before Realization: When Classifier-Free Guidance Becomes Unnecessary in Masked Diffusion Language Models

Fan Zhou, Tim Van de Cruys, Weitian Wang

arxiv:2608.08082 v1 · 2026-08-08 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TKB5TNAHQP2C65FUFSHWCL6GRW}

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First computed	2026-08-11T01:21:38.120714Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9a83d9b40783f42f74b42c8f612fc68d9cd58d9a79fe669bfd26e8fdc5f41fc8

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08082 · arxiv_version: 2608.08082v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08082 · pith_short_12: TKB5TNAHQP2C · pith_short_16: TKB5TNAHQP2C65FU · pith_short_8: TKB5TNAH

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TKB5TNAHQP2C65FUFSHWCL6GRW \
  | 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: 9a83d9b40783f42f74b42c8f612fc68d9cd58d9a79fe669bfd26e8fdc5f41fc8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ece30d64982a16a5ae9c5c8a513d93eac94c82ea6c2f296efa4298d649b7833",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-08T11:59:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a5ddd761630bab7fab6d1d72a32d9deacae615458e9fac6b997034729ba97fbc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08082",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}