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pith:WNJ5GGVW

pith:2025:WNJ5GGVWN2Y34IS34G5RCVXRB5

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Can Large Language Models Reason About Complex Execution Paths? An Empirical Study on Python

An Ran Chen, Gang Huang, Ge Li, Kaibo Liu, Lei Ma, Wenhan Wang, Zeyu Sun

arxiv:2511.18288 v2 · 2025-11-23 · cs.SE

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First computed	2026-06-19T16:12:16.361440Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b353d31ab66eb1be225be1bb1156f10f752ec8722bea3ecf5c2f47748d002c8d

Aliases

arxiv: 2511.18288 · arxiv_version: 2511.18288v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.18288 · pith_short_12: WNJ5GGVWN2Y3 · pith_short_16: WNJ5GGVWN2Y34IS3 · pith_short_8: WNJ5GGVW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WNJ5GGVWN2Y34IS34G5RCVXRB5 \
  | 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: b353d31ab66eb1be225be1bb1156f10f752ec8722bea3ecf5c2f47748d002c8d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-11-23T04:54:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b5452bfa97c099f5d0284d9ff31dfc0122163dd78634911c67324a480ac8e00"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2511.18288",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}