Pith Number

pith:6AYVX2RC

pith:2026:6AYVX2RCKMJCQFUDRIHOWDGC2H

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Thinking Hard, Not Smart: Reasoning Models Fail to Ration Test-Time Compute Across Questions

Chenrui Fan, Ming Li, Soheil Feizi, Tianyi Zhou, Yize Cheng, Yongyuan Liang

arxiv:2608.07968 v1 · 2026-08-08 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{6AYVX2RCKMJCQFUDRIHOWDGC2H}

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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	2026-08-11T01:21:15.759118Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f0315bea2253122816838a0eeb0cc2d1f6dc58ece27cca7dbfd259aaca576269

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07968 · arxiv_version: 2608.07968v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07968 · pith_short_12: 6AYVX2RCKMJC · pith_short_16: 6AYVX2RCKMJCQFUD · pith_short_8: 6AYVX2RC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6AYVX2RCKMJCQFUDRIHOWDGC2H \
  | 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: f0315bea2253122816838a0eeb0cc2d1f6dc58ece27cca7dbfd259aaca576269

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce250a371ff37b2aa0d13ce9c37916a64ef92bb31c346971b97ef4ec4103a41c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-08T07:04:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b85cff3b6787e9e985093ea1214159b115cc954e2466fc4784e1aa1910129930"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}