Pith Number

pith:5D7V4YGG

pith:2026:5D7V4YGGRZJ55XM4MM3HQ4EPCK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Value-Gradient Hypothesis of RL for LLMs

Arip Asadulaev, Daniil Ognev, Karim Salta, Martin Takac

arxiv:2605.21654 v1 · 2026-05-20 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5D7V4YGGRZJ55XM4MM3HQ4EPCK}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-22T01:03:26.991607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8ff5e60c68e53dedd9c633678708f12a09686cefed995893efd820c8ea8ab8c

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21654 · arxiv_version: 2605.21654v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21654 · pith_short_12: 5D7V4YGGRZJ5 · pith_short_16: 5D7V4YGGRZJ55XM4 · pith_short_8: 5D7V4YGG

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5D7V4YGGRZJ55XM4MM3HQ4EPCK \
  | 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: e8ff5e60c68e53dedd9c633678708f12a09686cefed995893efd820c8ea8ab8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0368509d49130e999ec1b34eab365d03ecba6561008289a37f4f33a83a34f00",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T19:09:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3f141cae6fec5a3aa47b0b1a523eb66e10e06cf6edca392e5a22f411cd1f3dab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.21654",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}