Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 22 of 22 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2508.20395.

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction online" 'onlinestring :=

Reference 1

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction write newline

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Observation daa40da3-3ebd-4c7e-b39b-bd32bda49920 · outbound

This paper cites Language Models are Few-Shot Learners.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

Reference 3

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Observation b7f883b2-ff07-47c5-b170-6656a986205d · outbound

This paper cites Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

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Observation 55fe5eb7-88ce-4132-9456-04a88ecde8e2 · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

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This paper cites Large Language Model based Multi-Agents: A Survey of Progress and Challenges.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Large Language Model based Multi-Agents: A Survey of Progress and Challenges

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Unresolved cited work

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Observation 4353d004-df15-4381-a620-2b2307162c78 · outbound

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Unresolved cited work

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Observation 921a1f23-82a5-4321-a76b-46660f9d7513 · outbound

This paper cites OpenAI o1 System Card.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction OpenAI o1 System Card

Reference 9

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Observation 918152a6-c6cb-4cfb-a495-2a17a47f5565 · outbound

This paper cites GPT-4 Technical Report.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction GPT-4 Technical Report

Reference 10

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Unresolved cited work

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Unresolved cited work

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Observation 98308103-c12e-4a35-b0ad-9a914df85957 · outbound

This paper cites Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

Reference 13

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Chi, Quoc V Le, and Denny Zhou.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Chi, Quoc V Le, and Denny Zhou

Reference 15

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Unresolved cited work

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites SoftCoT++: Test-Time Scaling with Soft Chain-of-Thought Reasoning.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction SoftCoT++: Test-Time Scaling with Soft Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Reference 18

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Qwen3 Technical Report

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Observation 47b30a52-e1a7-4ca9-b2b1-a9c5faa5c91a · outbound

This paper cites Griffiths, Yuan Cao, and Karthik R Narasimhan.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Griffiths, Yuan Cao, and Karthik R Narasimhan

Reference 20

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Observation a53cd198-884b-4cc0-9730-6ea5434d034d · outbound

This paper cites Bridging Internal Probability and Self-Consistency for Effective and Efficient LLM Reasoning.

Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Bridging Internal Probability and Self-Consistency for Effective and Efficient LLM Reasoning

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Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction Unresolved cited work

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Pith citing papers

Observation a52706d9-32fa-4861-82e2-0d3cc1026abe · inbound

The Stepwise Informativeness Assumption: Why are Entropy Dynamics and Reasoning Correlated in LLMs? cites this paper.

The Stepwise Informativeness Assumption: Why are Entropy Dynamics and Reasoning Correlated in LLMs? Measuring Reasoning Utility in LLMs via Conditional Entropy Reduction

Reference 12

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