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pith:2025:UVR655QA2GNGZSY5XGOCHH3EOV

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation

Denny Wu, Jason Lee, Juno Kim, Taiji Suzuki

arxiv:2502.01694 v2 · 2025-02-02 · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:22:12.773574Z
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a563eef600d19a6ccb1db99c239f64756b2098a6c246047d90b0d64cd9264164

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arxiv: 2502.01694 · arxiv_version: 2502.01694v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.01694 · pith_short_12: UVR655QA2GNG · pith_short_16: UVR655QA2GNGZSY5 · pith_short_8: UVR655QA

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UVR655QA2GNGZSY5XGOCHH3EOV \
  | 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: a563eef600d19a6ccb1db99c239f64756b2098a6c246047d90b0d64cd9264164

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    "submitted_at": "2025-02-02T18:19:14Z",
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