Pith Number

pith:VDPKUXV7

pith:2026:VDPKUXV7D4ACKJEXWWBGK4YO7I

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The data geometry of masking diffusion: Certified-optimal schedules via unmasking growth complexity

Martin J. Wainwright

arxiv:2608.13520 v1 · 2026-08-13 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT · math.ST · stat.ML · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDPKUXV7D4ACKJEXWWBGK4YO7I}

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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	2026-08-14T01:24:56.850789Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8deaa5ebf1f00252497b58265730efa02c3e77913d22443e848789ba48d01dd

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13520 · arxiv_version: 2608.13520v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13520 · pith_short_12: VDPKUXV7D4AC · pith_short_16: VDPKUXV7D4ACKJEX · pith_short_8: VDPKUXV7

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/VDPKUXV7D4ACKJEXWWBGK4YO7I \
  | 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: a8deaa5ebf1f00252497b58265730efa02c3e77913d22443e848789ba48d01dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da12888e738f583646bfb3d6ed8727726c0c9fd62c970565b3cd59122bff6d37",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.ML",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T17:40:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c92c96cb91e421dd6ac9d83ac094253f3797da70a3a14be38bd04035649c7bbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13520",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}