Pith Number

pith:4T2YOVWQ

pith:2026:4T2YOVWQ353T7FYTOUVIGMDH7O

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Low Perplexity is Repetition: A One-Dimensional Self-Conditioning Attractor in Continuous Diffusion LMs

Hongliang He, Lun Du, Shuai Zhang, Zhenzhong Lan, Zijie Chen

arxiv:2607.00588 v1 · 2026-07-01 · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{4T2YOVWQ353T7FYTOUVIGMDH7O}

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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	2026-07-02T01:17:48.331719Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4f58756d0df773f9713752a833067fbb8ffda6584ec8b8f477c8debf465fa3e

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.00588 · arxiv_version: 2607.00588v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.00588 · pith_short_12: 4T2YOVWQ353T · pith_short_16: 4T2YOVWQ353T7FYT · pith_short_8: 4T2YOVWQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4T2YOVWQ353T7FYTOUVIGMDH7O \
  | 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: e4f58756d0df773f9713752a833067fbb8ffda6584ec8b8f477c8debf465fa3e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b3c86ce639f9fad869460e554aaf54eb59c4b06e4f8dbe9549af5f8f717bfed",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-01T08:13:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f2ac3fe675132923a0f1e780ff0c8c050ad947d35ebcfc2dbee318ff50444a28"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.00588",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}