Pith Number

pith:ZFYYLL5Y

pith:2025:ZFYYLL5Y4V5Q7F4OVQPSN4JUHH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VarDiU: A Variational Diffusive Upper Bound for One-Step Diffusion Distillation

David Barber, Leyang Wang, Mingtian Zhang, Zijing Ou

arxiv:2508.20646 v1 · 2025-08-28 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZFYYLL5Y4V5Q7F4OVQPSN4JUHH}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T12:00:56.718446Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c97185afb8e57b0f978eac1f26f13439db2f21846d19dc8e441384abacf51240

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.20646 · arxiv_version: 2508.20646v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.20646 · pith_short_12: ZFYYLL5Y4V5Q · pith_short_16: ZFYYLL5Y4V5Q7F4O · pith_short_8: ZFYYLL5Y

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/ZFYYLL5Y4V5Q7F4OVQPSN4JUHH \
  | 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: c97185afb8e57b0f978eac1f26f13439db2f21846d19dc8e441384abacf51240

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7818ad90d5a50ff25702a4b5cda2cee34ebefba3a9f320661bba44f1c9f3cf15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-28T10:47:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18f550ed4c04e00f3e4c2f602968c5998dc6fff0262878a3c129d48b03ca42d0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.20646",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}