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pith:2025:BTDHHYDB4A6GCTX3J7W5ZFC4RF

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Soft Thinking: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of LLMs in Continuous Concept Space

Ao Shen, Chenyang Zhao, Shuohang Wang, Weixiang Yan, Xin Eric Wang, Xuehai He, Yelong Shen, Zhen Zhang

arxiv:2505.15778 v1 · 2025-05-21 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:06:57.829390Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cc673e061e03c614efb4feddc945c89760088d0037839332a0f25e0af2c84e5

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.15778 · arxiv_version: 2505.15778v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.15778 · pith_short_12: BTDHHYDB4A6G · pith_short_16: BTDHHYDB4A6GCTX3 · pith_short_8: BTDHHYDB

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BTDHHYDB4A6GCTX3J7W5ZFC4RF \
  | 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: 0cc673e061e03c614efb4feddc945c89760088d0037839332a0f25e0af2c84e5

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