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  "article_slug": "consistency-distillation-budgets",
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    {
      "id": "support-versus-marginal",
      "kind": "line_chart",
      "title": "Valid support can hide a wrong marginal",
      "x_label": "Student probability of +1",
      "y_label": "Exact finite-distribution statistic",
      "x": [
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      "series": [
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            0.3,
            0.4,
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        },
        {
          "name": "Mean",
          "y": [
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            0.2,
            0.4,
            0.6,
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        },
        {
          "name": "Nearest-support distance",
          "y": [
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            0,
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      ],
      "caption": "Constructed two-point target with equal mode weights. Every generated value lies on valid support; no image-model metric is being simulated."
    },
    {
      "id": "fixed-overhead-cost",
      "kind": "line_chart",
      "title": "Step count and end-to-end budget",
      "x_label": "Sampler evaluations",
      "y_label": "Constructed latency (ms)",
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        2,
        4,
        8,
        16
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        {
          "name": "Full pipeline",
          "y": [
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            36,
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        }
      ],
      "caption": "Assumed 20 ms fixed overhead plus 8 ms per evaluation. Pure arithmetic, not measured hardware performance."
    }
  ],
  "constructed_only": true
}