Pith Number

pith:X4YU5NRA

pith:2026:X4YU5NRAR3PH2ZTQMC3BTFATSL

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Lost in Interpolation: Why Predictive Feedback Fails in Diffusion Language Models

Aryan Sood, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Ishaan Bansal, Lavanya Nigam, Vidit Aggarwal

arxiv:2608.06529 v1 · 2026-08-06 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X4YU5NRAR3PH2ZTQMC3BTFATSL}

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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.

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First computed	2026-08-10T01:10:57.033424Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf314eb6208ede7d667060b619941392d81dce4b3730175d82ca5a49a53cfb5f

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.06529 · arxiv_version: 2608.06529v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.06529 · pith_short_12: X4YU5NRAR3PH · pith_short_16: X4YU5NRAR3PH2ZTQ · pith_short_8: X4YU5NRA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/X4YU5NRAR3PH2ZTQMC3BTFATSL \
  | 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: bf314eb6208ede7d667060b619941392d81dce4b3730175d82ca5a49a53cfb5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "42958577f4f4dfd0380ce21731aa8821ecca8453384f66edad08635b48097e32",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-06T19:23:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "235a787d6d9dc3abdd44efd4952cccba3afd97bdb03f15753de30d6b93d30974"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.06529",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}