Pith Number

pith:ECBPXMRZ

pith:2026:ECBPXMRZ7TFHT7LRVUF6W6NDSW

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Self-Improving Large Language Models via Progressive Experience Evolution

Fandong Meng, Haoyang Zhou, Meng Li, Shijie Ren, Xiting Wang, Xunlong Wang, Yuetan Chen, Yujie Guo, Yunhang Yao, Yunlong Liang, Ziheng Peng

arxiv:2608.02139 v1 · 2026-08-03 · cs.CL · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ECBPXMRZ7TFHT7LRVUF6W6NDSW}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T02:11:05.609206Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2082fbb239fcca79fd71ad0beb79a39584b21ae89d1f04d32ad494cb491748a4

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02139 · arxiv_version: 2608.02139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02139 · pith_short_12: ECBPXMRZ7TFH · pith_short_16: ECBPXMRZ7TFHT7LR · pith_short_8: ECBPXMRZ

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/ECBPXMRZ7TFHT7LRVUF6W6NDSW \
  | 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: 2082fbb239fcca79fd71ad0beb79a39584b21ae89d1f04d32ad494cb491748a4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c6ab15012f0ca54a375d3d1a66d8882864dc62c73d93471416279c8cc4995a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T12:27:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc97de284144e71bc497c590c73df5a4237b15f414c0844a61871c41fddcb34e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}