Pith Number

pith:TE66YHR3

pith:2026:TE66YHR3JPYINBWLKOTDYUSUB4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reasoning about Reasoning: BAPO Bounds on Chain-of-Thought Token Complexity in LLMs

Adith Swaminathan, Jennifer Neville, Kiran Tomlinson, Tobias Schnabel

arxiv:2602.02909 v2 · 2026-02-02 · cs.AI · cs.FL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TE66YHR3JPYINBWLKOTDYUSUB4}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-29T01:05:03.268220Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

993dec1e3b4bf08686cb53a63c52540f35aa25ef75bc519f328e2847c0609173

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.02909 · arxiv_version: 2602.02909v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.02909 · pith_short_12: TE66YHR3JPYI · pith_short_16: TE66YHR3JPYINBWL · pith_short_8: TE66YHR3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TE66YHR3JPYINBWLKOTDYUSUB4 \
  | 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: 993dec1e3b4bf08686cb53a63c52540f35aa25ef75bc519f328e2847c0609173

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c497157c41b8d9a0452e38cc7b57d8c0d749654a5289ebe7cb9b3ce54982d135",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.FL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-02T23:33:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5cbbb0c17d6a0ed7cbe594e7856e59afd111cd4c2fb75d1950ebe04a6512306c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.02909",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}