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pith:OVN5TVWX

pith:2026:OVN5TVWXTZYNN2DOAIKZFROJHO

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Diagnosing Pathological Chain-of-Thought in Reasoning Models

Cameron Tice, David Williams-King, Edward James Young, Hannes Whittingham, Ida Caspary, Linh Le, Manqing Liu, Puria Radmard

arxiv:2602.13904 v2 · 2026-02-14 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-07-24T00:23:07.393012Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

755bd9d6d79e70d6e86e021592c5c93ba7e3b13c6ca15d61c7bfb9a36718b6b6

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arxiv: 2602.13904 · arxiv_version: 2602.13904v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.13904 · pith_short_12: OVN5TVWXTZYN · pith_short_16: OVN5TVWXTZYNN2DO · pith_short_8: OVN5TVWX

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OVN5TVWXTZYNN2DOAIKZFROJHO \
  | 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: 755bd9d6d79e70d6e86e021592c5c93ba7e3b13c6ca15d61c7bfb9a36718b6b6

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-14T21:53:47Z",
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