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pith:5IM45ZWO

pith:2026:5IM45ZWOQ6E25L3SARUU4TEUPE

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Self-Improvements in Modern Agentic Systems: A Survey

Dandan Guo, Guowei Rong, J\"urgen Schmidhuber, Li Nanbo, Mingchen Zhuge, Qingfeng Lan, R. B. Xiong, Tonghui Li, Wenyi Wang, Yibo Yang, Yimeng Chen, Zhe Ren

arxiv:2607.13104 v1 · 2026-07-14 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-16T00:21:57.268300Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea19cee6ce8789aeaf7204694e4c9479253431378be13c83a0eecb04d79c6004

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arxiv: 2607.13104 · arxiv_version: 2607.13104v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.13104 · pith_short_12: 5IM45ZWOQ6E2 · pith_short_16: 5IM45ZWOQ6E25L3S · pith_short_8: 5IM45ZWO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5IM45ZWOQ6E25L3SARUU4TEUPE \
  | 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: ea19cee6ce8789aeaf7204694e4c9479253431378be13c83a0eecb04d79c6004

Canonical record JSON

{
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      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-14T09:12:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f623b0f553563d110af8ef6fa217c2a54e66be46fc0e013a20eb342c8892ac27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}