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Reasoning is topologically simple

Chris Kapulkin, Nathan Kershaw

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arXiv ID
2611.03739 v1
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Submitted
2026-11-02

Abstract

We formulate and investigate the hypothesis that reasoning text has simpler co-occurrence topology than non-reasoning text, and that higher-quality reasoning has simpler co-occurrence topology than lower-quality reasoning. We discuss and test applications to AI safety and AI evaluation.

Comment: 15 pages + 14 pages of appendices

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