Pith Number

pith:TYVRDTJW

pith:2023:TYVRDTJWOH4UPQRL4BRYMWRHER

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Why think step by step? Reasoning emerges from the locality of experience

Ben Prystawski, Michael Y. Li, Noah D. Goodman

arxiv:2304.03843 v3 · 2023-04-07 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TYVRDTJWOH4UPQRL4BRYMWRHER}

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A Measure-Theoretic Analysis of Reasoning: Structural Generalization and Approximation Limits

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T07:08:28.116146Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9e2b11cd3671f947c22be063865a272443672d735b96b0cf0ab2cd4e84367e55

Aliases

arxiv: 2304.03843 · arxiv_version: 2304.03843v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.03843 · pith_short_12: TYVRDTJWOH4U · pith_short_16: TYVRDTJWOH4UPQRL · pith_short_8: TYVRDTJW

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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/TYVRDTJWOH4UPQRL4BRYMWRHER \
  | 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: 9e2b11cd3671f947c22be063865a272443672d735b96b0cf0ab2cd4e84367e55

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f8bf727442904bf6df0646e514bb897ef28c3cb5237dca519550f57c0fa4972a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2023-04-07T21:04:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b095aa551ab31dbc7cd9bb3bb2c40fc0d5c6e961236ae010df3e667b690219d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2304.03843",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}