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pith:VD6MKHPY

pith:2025:VD6MKHPY4PSP4OAE6VQ5JQVVDP

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Deductive Logic in Language Models: Horizontal vs Vertical Reasoning

Davide Maltoni, Matteo Ferrara

arxiv:2510.09340 v2 · 2025-10-10 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-01T01:18:23.933571Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

a8fcc51df8e3e4fe3804f561d4c2b51bc8777732fcffb953311c01852dd0ed25

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arxiv: 2510.09340 · arxiv_version: 2510.09340v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.09340 · pith_short_12: VD6MKHPY4PSP · pith_short_16: VD6MKHPY4PSP4OAE · pith_short_8: VD6MKHPY

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VD6MKHPY4PSP4OAE6VQ5JQVVDP \
  | 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: a8fcc51df8e3e4fe3804f561d4c2b51bc8777732fcffb953311c01852dd0ed25

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-10T12:49:00Z",
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