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pith:W65RQQ6O

pith:2025:W65RQQ6OA7FE32ACDHRBF4ST5V

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What Makes the Preferred Thinking Direction for LLMs in Multiple-choice Questions?

Emmanuel Abbe, Jiatao Gu, Navdeep Jaitly, Richard Bai, Ruixiang Zhang, Samy Bengio, Yizhe Zhang, Zijin Gu

arxiv:2502.18435 v3 · 2025-02-25 · cs.CL · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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Probability Consistency in Large Language Models: Theoretical Foundations Meet Empirical Discrepancies

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:28:34.407572Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b7bb1843ce07ca4de80219e212f253ed70c0a527f0a54b10efd67c848a8c69c2

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.18435 · arxiv_version: 2502.18435v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.18435 · pith_short_12: W65RQQ6OA7FE · pith_short_16: W65RQQ6OA7FE32AC · pith_short_8: W65RQQ6O

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W65RQQ6OA7FE32ACDHRBF4ST5V \
  | 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: b7bb1843ce07ca4de80219e212f253ed70c0a527f0a54b10efd67c848a8c69c2

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-25T18:30:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4767edc976c951c50b6b2d590d255f1314557fdbbac9dfd7890dc78e5e621f5"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2502.18435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}