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Paper Citation Record · LEDGER
As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 46 of 46 outbound references and 5 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2509.07339.
A citation records a reference. It does not transfer a finding from one paper to another.
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Observation 97948ada-a807-453b-b7c5-19f9ed42ef51 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Training language models to reason efficiently, 2025.URL https://arxiv
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Observation d2918429-d688-43da-a233-aa180ab847a0 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation
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Observation c50ca6e0-39e2-438b-bf92-907a5372473a · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Sparks of artificial general intelligence: Early experiments with gpt-4, 2023
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Observation 99bb6ba3-a323-499f-9e51-2b556a410a5a · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity VeriThinker: Learning to Verify Makes Reasoning Model Efficient
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Observation 4c56543f-985a-4d01-93e1-b843fe3cc343 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners, or, Four Habits of Highly Effective STaRs
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Observation 3c5157bf-1c90-4ec9-9ed8-5e270a033a89 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Stream of Search (SoS): Learning to Search in Language
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Observation cef0c5ec-8500-4696-a2b4-ce6c12485617 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity MiniLLM: On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models
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Observation 7387013c-8d63-4ff4-9b9b-128d2a8f52df · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
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Observation cb4bad00-b714-4f3a-b351-853f7521baf5 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Don’t overthink it
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Observation 4aa060ea-7f24-499a-bdee-63534670d8f6 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes
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Observation fb13b985-01c9-474d-8271-8756e51d4766 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Procedural dungeon generation: A drunkard’s walk in clojurescript
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Observation 54568a56-2b07-47e8-b3b0-bb40d1d37991 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity On the shortest spanning subtree of a graph and the traveling salesman problem.Proceedings of the American Mathematical society, 7(1):48–50, 1956
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Observation 77b6face-af61-49b7-b017-1e69ebb7afe1 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training
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Observation cbcf46dd-5fcc-4acd-a41c-3c541e745568 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Beyond A*: Better Planning with Transformers via Search Dynamics Bootstrapping
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Observation 0d845bad-5b4d-47ef-974d-c38ae4dc6692 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity LLMs Can Easily Learn to Reason from Demonstrations Structure, not content, is what matters!
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Observation 6de193bf-8222-4a06-9f53-3ac1ecdb7cc1 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity AALC: Large Language Model Efficient Reasoning via Adaptive Accuracy-Length Control
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Observation 13a36d17-ec40-4be2-9367-ee30308eb202 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Let’s verify step by step
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Observation 83145d73-9036-4be5-ae10-fba891a39060 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Thought Manipulation: External Thought Can Be Efficient for Large Reasoning Models
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Observation a0c67f84-a7ce-4a7b-8e8c-013c48fe118a · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity s1: Simple test-time scaling
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Observation 7c25b10b-0a55-4ac0-9c97-de8bb36970cb · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Show your work: Scratchpads for intermediate computation with language models
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Observation e3b1388f-abec-4dc1-a0e9-041a8a33707c · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Can Transformers Reason Logically? A Study in SAT Solving
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Observation e03ea8b4-ab42-4168-af01-b52f9b633829 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models
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Observation 791d70c2-674e-4cfe-b606-cfc6e17bf4e1 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets
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Observation 8159e690-5c06-47fc-b025-4cd0d859c576 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Qwen2.5 Technical Report
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Observation c265a507-cbf8-4d13-8a45-aae9f3c32fd3 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Sample more to think less: Group filtered policy optimization for concise reasoning, 2025
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Observation 05b43ce2-1f4f-49c9-ad2a-10b270013a60 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Dualformer: Controllable fast and slow thinking by learning with randomized reasoning traces
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Observation 071a2b51-ef8c-46b2-865c-af284779e92f · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Reinforcement Learning in the Era of LLMs: What is Essential? What is needed? An RL Perspective on RLHF, Prompting, and Beyond
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Observation ee14d1a5-7705-4da6-8488-4e7c68ed8723 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Depth-first search and linear graph algorithms.SIAM journal on computing, 1(2):146–160, 1972
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Observation 369cce04-b9bc-42a2-af45-81aa3c6c5399 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Grokked Transformers are Implicit Reasoners: A Mechanistic Journey to the Edge of Generalization
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Observation 306fb0aa-0958-47ea-b433-a45c67850106 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models.Advances in neural information processing systems, 35:24824–24837, 2022
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Observation 7f8bed23-aeeb-4615-83f6-170301dea146 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Generating random spanning trees more quickly than the cover time
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Observation f0c70ae0-52de-4c14-ba4e-1490980e39cd · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Chain of thought imitation with procedure cloning.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35:36366–36381, 2022
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Observation 0f59c858-a769-4811-8d52-e4334d307704 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Understanding Aha Moments: from External Observations to Internal Mechanisms
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Observation ef85af22-6ebe-43ef-915e-7d7331994982 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale
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Observation d5a09d7f-76e3-495d-b2b3-279f39d2ed32 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Efficient rl training for reasoning models via length-aware optimization.ArXiv, abs/2505.12284, 2025
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Observation 5ce6f0e3-fa8c-429c-9d68-cde65a1ac111 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Free Process Rewards without Process Labels
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Observation cc949ec1-2e08-4f91-8f39-3b483f4059fe · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Star: Bootstrapping reasoning with reasoning
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Observation f7caad15-2593-4945-84b6-bb035eeeaab2 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Automatic Chain of Thought Prompting in Large Language Models
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Observation 1c3d1c90-2b68-4d1b-b688-fe548a1d056b · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity The clock and the pizza: Two stories in mechanistic explanation of neural networks.Advances in neural information processing systems, 36:27223–27250, 2023
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Observation bdd3d588-573c-4fc4-a314-63f81d131cce · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity R1-Zero's "Aha Moment" in Visual Reasoning on a 2B Non-SFT Model
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Observation d279edc9-fd06-4aaf-858b-1c76b3345e73 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Wilson’s algorithm generates uniform random mazes by performing loop-erased random walks from unvisited cells until they connect to the current maze [ 31]
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Observation cb6d748a-2263-4fb7-ae19-1715fd82d610 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity This results in a fully connected maze without loops, though the maze distribution is not perfectly uniform
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Observation 393fc2a7-c7fe-4415-a4e0-a539a3a91e50 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity When it hits a dead-end (no unvisited neighbors), it backtracks until it finds a new direction to explore, repeating until all cells are visited and connected into a complete maze
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Observation fa89015a-4b55-445e-980f-fcf4aa9832cc · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Drunkard’s Walk
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Observation d00034ce-a2bb-4864-99cf-98de2762e975 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity Tasks are generated by exhaustive rejection sampling: first, randomly select a number between 30% and 50%
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Observation 42ce7289-6f8f-48ef-a593-8636769ab215 · outbound
Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity In our case, we chose the number of levels of outer walls to be 4
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Observation a9070308-b854-4a41-8648-2366cb62259c · inbound
The Stepwise Informativeness Assumption: Why are Entropy Dynamics and Reasoning Correlated in LLMs? Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity
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Observation f8f035c4-8a86-4ec6-8b1e-ea46a98ea671 · inbound
When Reasoning Traces Become Performative: Step-Level Evidence that Chain-of-Thought Is an Imperfect Oversight Channel Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity
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Observation 2c6f55a6-761b-411d-8c09-d8c33972bb67 · inbound
Effort as Ceiling, Not Dial: Reasoning Budget Does Not Modulate Cognitive Cost Alignment Between Humans and Large Reasoning Models Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity
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Observation 7dce6cab-9111-4f04-88d3-3fbf39b877c1 · inbound
Fixed-Point Reasoners: Stable and Adaptive Deep Looped Transformers Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity
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Observation 8e7f7ea4-a507-4a95-9875-dfddda4e936f · inbound
Masked Distillation: Internalizing the Chain-of-Thought in Language Models Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity
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