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pith:N5Q5IOPQ

pith:2025:N5Q5IOPQYXF6OF4JJ7UHDGLXWG

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Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity

Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Subbarao Kambhampati, Vardhan Palod

arxiv:2509.07339 v1 · 2025-09-09 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:07:19.901269Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f61d439f0c5cbe717894fe8719977b1968055e4aa97779aa11d6ab1940e3f57

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arxiv: 2509.07339 · arxiv_version: 2509.07339v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.07339 · pith_short_12: N5Q5IOPQYXF6 · pith_short_16: N5Q5IOPQYXF6OF4J · pith_short_8: N5Q5IOPQ

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N5Q5IOPQYXF6OF4JJ7UHDGLXWG \
  | 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: 6f61d439f0c5cbe717894fe8719977b1968055e4aa97779aa11d6ab1940e3f57

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-09T02:31:16Z",
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