Pith Number

pith:BXVQBDF6

pith:2026:BXVQBDF6QK2MHEPJVQIPSQEDXX

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Self-Improving is Often Sudden: Enlightenment-style Finetuning for Large-Scale Models

Feifei Zhang, Feng-lei Fan, Hang-Cheng Dong, Jing-Xiao Liao, Tianwei Zhang, Yu-Hao Jiang

arxiv:2607.13395 v1 · 2026-07-15 · cs.LG

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-16T00:22:15.601368Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0deb008cbe82b4c391e9ac10f94083bde37d220e9030db1756a4324298a8361d

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.13395 · arxiv_version: 2607.13395v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.13395 · pith_short_12: BXVQBDF6QK2M · pith_short_16: BXVQBDF6QK2MHEPJ · pith_short_8: BXVQBDF6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BXVQBDF6QK2MHEPJVQIPSQEDXX \
  | 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: 0deb008cbe82b4c391e9ac10f94083bde37d220e9030db1756a4324298a8361d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4886819b2def27755ecd3685aa684f7a8b219d2d38db8eeb73860babcae05bf8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-15T02:43:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71b004c84addd478b76d232aa7f62f6211928118e214e1d72e9ffc5d31668ea4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.13395",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}