Pith Number

pith:4BCUFMQX

pith:2025:4BCUFMQXCGPS5ERXAEEQ7SOGNX

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Who Reasons in the Large Language Models?

Jianxin Wu, Jie Shao

arxiv:2505.20993 v1 · 2025-05-27 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4BCUFMQXCGPS5ERXAEEQ7SOGNX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:10:22.103648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e04542b217119f2e923701090fc9c66dd60ac5a6503d6136b7772487a6b1a54a

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.20993 · arxiv_version: 2505.20993v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.20993 · pith_short_12: 4BCUFMQXCGPS · pith_short_16: 4BCUFMQXCGPS5ERX · pith_short_8: 4BCUFMQX

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4BCUFMQXCGPS5ERXAEEQ7SOGNX \
  | 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: e04542b217119f2e923701090fc9c66dd60ac5a6503d6136b7772487a6b1a54a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5988548bf164bb2ccb30bec487d408728c8ef91f3b58890874e06ac907444fe5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-27T10:26:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ba1dbe6dd3127ca5e54c3a27bbbccabf38ee35a95a0b2617ad6f73034493add"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.20993",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}