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pith:45J2XELT

pith:2025:45J2XELTGXYPL7QSE25ZDWKBCH

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Do Cognitively Interpretable Reasoning Traces Improve LLM Performance?

Siddhant Bhambri, Subbarao Kambhampati, Upasana Biswas

arxiv:2508.16695 v1 · 2025-08-21 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e753ab917335f0f5fe1226bb91d94111fa2901fa44aba0b8ed7d522159224818

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arxiv: 2508.16695 · arxiv_version: 2508.16695v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.16695 · pith_short_12: 45J2XELTGXYP · pith_short_16: 45J2XELTGXYPL7QS · pith_short_8: 45J2XELT

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/45J2XELTGXYPL7QSE25ZDWKBCH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e753ab917335f0f5fe1226bb91d94111fa2901fa44aba0b8ed7d522159224818

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2025-08-21T23:48:50Z",
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