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pith:WMFR2SZT

pith:2026:WMFR2SZTGCXNIVAHZSSCE5FQSW

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InfoDensity: Rewarding Information-Dense Traces for Efficient Reasoning

Chengwei Wei, Jung-jae Kim, Longyin Zhang, Nancy F. Chen, Shengkai Chen

arxiv:2603.17310 v2 · 2026-03-18 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-06-05T01:14:36.899546Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b30b1d4b3330aed45407cca42274b0958e455bc42295206e4a23d07c01f2a64c

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.17310 · arxiv_version: 2603.17310v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.17310 · pith_short_12: WMFR2SZTGCXN · pith_short_16: WMFR2SZTGCXNIVAH · pith_short_8: WMFR2SZT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WMFR2SZTGCXNIVAHZSSCE5FQSW \
  | 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: b30b1d4b3330aed45407cca42274b0958e455bc42295206e4a23d07c01f2a64c

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-18T03:11:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "961ae8c4813cf5ad432fede6895339f77ae2b9d85e383cec36360c03e5dc2bc5"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}