@article{conditionaltotalcorrelationandtheseriald, title = {Conditional Total Correlation and the Serial Depth of Adaptive Parallel Sampling}, author = {Chuling Wen and Weijie Liang and Jian Lu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.25505}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25505}, }