Thanks for posting on the NI forums! You can use a capacitor in parallel with a bias resistor in order to further reduce noise. However, you can technically have a pseudo differential input configuration without this capacitor. As long as there is a resistor between AI 0- and ground, you are providing a path to ground for the bias current.
Take a look at the
Field Wiring developer zone article. As you can see in Table 1, two resistors provide return paths to ground for bias currents in differential mode. The main difference (physically) is that pseudo differential mode provides a return path to ground only for the negative lead.
Rod T.