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pith:XEVUIHG3

pith:2025:XEVUIHG3W7LIHADTV2ULLEVRHX

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The Shape of Reasoning: Topological Analysis of Reasoning Traces in Large Language Models

Galen Lee, Nathaniel Tan, Stanley Kok, Xue Wen Tan

arxiv:2510.20665 v2 · 2025-10-23 · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-22T01:03:48.599244Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b92b441cdbb7d6838073aea8b592b13ddb44807248a908bdaf29c15976013714

Aliases

arxiv: 2510.20665 · arxiv_version: 2510.20665v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.20665 · pith_short_12: XEVUIHG3W7LI · pith_short_16: XEVUIHG3W7LIHADT · pith_short_8: XEVUIHG3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XEVUIHG3W7LIHADTV2ULLEVRHX \
  | 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: b92b441cdbb7d6838073aea8b592b13ddb44807248a908bdaf29c15976013714

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-10-23T15:43:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96322e70c07bc2420bdf23287b51ac6207ba5d3556d5745bc6b6f05082f1ca22"
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  }
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