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pith:DP7VN4LR

pith:2025:DP7VN4LRIL3L2LWJ5YKQDXPSWL

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Reasoning with Latent Thoughts: On the Power of Looped Transformers

Nikunj Saunshi, Nishanth Dikkala, Sanjiv Kumar, Sashank J. Reddi, Zhiyuan Li

arxiv:2502.17416 v1 · 2025-02-24 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:19:09.851321Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1bff56f17142f6bd2ec9ee1501ddf2b2d894864cb35366db3612fae18077dcfc

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.17416 · arxiv_version: 2502.17416v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.17416 · pith_short_12: DP7VN4LRIL3L · pith_short_16: DP7VN4LRIL3L2LWJ · pith_short_8: DP7VN4LR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DP7VN4LRIL3L2LWJ5YKQDXPSWL \
  | 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: 1bff56f17142f6bd2ec9ee1501ddf2b2d894864cb35366db3612fae18077dcfc

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-24T18:49:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58a874dc9300676411ad3ba0d6a8acbc9450d9bb24a8d0815519da4546bddf8a"
  },
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