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  {
    "id": "lit_2508_03440",
    "type": "article",
    "title": "LLMs are Single-threaded Reasoners: Demystifying the Working Mechanism of Soft Thinking",
    "author": [
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        "literal": "Junhong Wu"
      },
      {
        "literal": "Jinliang Lu"
      },
      {
        "literal": "Zixuan Ren"
      },
      {
        "literal": "Gangqiang Hu"
      },
      {
        "literal": "Zhi Wu"
      },
      {
        "literal": "Dai Dai"
      },
      {
        "literal": "Hua Wu"
      }
    ],
    "issued": {
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          2025,
          8,
          5
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    "genre": "Preprint",
    "archive": "arXiv",
    "number": "arXiv:2508.03440",
    "URL": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03440",
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      "first_public": "2025-08-05",
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      "citation_basis": "ArXiv preprint, using its initial submission date; source URL is not version-pinned."
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