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pith:PT6R2GSC

pith:2025:PT6R2GSCJQCM7RXOLU3ZJKQYA2

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Entropy Minimization in LLM Reasoning

Hao Peng, Jiawei Han, Lifan Yuan, Shivam Agarwal, Zimin Zhang

arxiv:2505.15134 v1 · 2025-05-21 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-18T15:51:37.294792Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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7cfd1d1a424c04cfc6ee5d3794aa180691922fa127aafebc18a757c20b5ce27c

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arxiv: 2505.15134 · arxiv_version: 2505.15134v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.15134 · pith_short_12: PT6R2GSCJQCM · pith_short_16: PT6R2GSCJQCM7RXO · pith_short_8: PT6R2GSC

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PT6R2GSCJQCM7RXOLU3ZJKQYA2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
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# expect: 7cfd1d1a424c04cfc6ee5d3794aa180691922fa127aafebc18a757c20b5ce27c

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