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Transient Chaos

The physical phenomenon the paper identifies as the cause of reasoning slowdowns: chaotic wandering before eventual convergence.

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  • Foundational work on transient chaos and the uncertainty exponent underlying this paper's fractality metrics.
  • Co-author of the transient chaos textbook and work on doubly-transient chaos.
  • Co-author of the canonical transient chaos textbook; source of the finite-time Lyapunov exponent framework used here.

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  • Doubly-Transient Chaos
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    Chaos whose underlying saddle-like set itself decays over time (as in a damped pendulum); the paper expects most reasoning models to show this due to convergence pressure acting like dissipation.
  • Singly-Transient Chaos
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    Chaos where the saddle-like set is constant and transience arises only from approach to steady states, contrasted with doubly-transient chaos.
  • Fractal Basins
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    Self-similar convergence-time basins the paper finds in reasoning models' latent initial-condition space, growing with task difficulty.

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