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pith:77QLYMWI

pith:2024:77QLYMWIXZ67CYZTRIHJBDD2VQ

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Iteration Head: A Mechanistic Study of Chain-of-Thought

Alice Yang, Charles Arnal, Francois Charton, Julia Kempe, Vivien Cabannes, Wassim Bouaziz

arxiv:2406.02128 v2 · 2024-06-04 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:27:01.697311Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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arxiv: 2406.02128 · arxiv_version: 2406.02128v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.02128 · pith_short_12: 77QLYMWIXZ67 · pith_short_16: 77QLYMWIXZ67CYZT · pith_short_8: 77QLYMWI

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/77QLYMWIXZ67CYZTRIHJBDD2VQ \
  | 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: ffe0bc32c8be7df163338a0e908c7aac327b28b09cf58923f9b334f7cb5b2591

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    "submitted_at": "2024-06-04T09:11:46Z",
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