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pith:2025:4Z2HN5REPEI5GYDHTKPTOCAWCX

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The Self-Improvement Paradox: Can Language Models Bootstrap Reasoning Capabilities without External Scaffolding?

Jianwei Yin, Mingshuai Chen, Ruochen Xu, Tiancheng Zhao, Yutao Sun, Zilun Zhang

arxiv:2502.13441 v1 · 2025-02-19 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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e67476f6247911d360679a9f37081615dcc6515c3ce98b53ccd5c812de0a0a57

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arxiv: 2502.13441 · arxiv_version: 2502.13441v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.13441 · pith_short_12: 4Z2HN5REPEI5 · pith_short_16: 4Z2HN5REPEI5GYDH · pith_short_8: 4Z2HN5RE

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4Z2HN5REPEI5GYDHTKPTOCAWCX \
  | 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: e67476f6247911d360679a9f37081615dcc6515c3ce98b53ccd5c812de0a0a57

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