Pith Number

pith:H4M7WT3W

pith:2026:H4M7WT3WJKADRQIGFG3R4SH7A7

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Survive or Collapse: The Asymmetric Roles of Data Gating and Reward Grounding in Self-Play RL

Chengzhi Liu, Gaowen Liu, Jayanth Srinivasa, Sophia Xiao Pu, William Yang Wang, Xin Eric Wang, Zhaotian Weng

arxiv:2605.22217 v1 · 2026-05-21 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{H4M7WT3WJKADRQIGFG3R4SH7A7}

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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	2026-05-22T01:04:32.674978Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3f19fb4f764a8038c10629b71e48ff07fba97f39cf9fadad9aaa01454263ed1a

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.22217 · arxiv_version: 2605.22217v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.22217 · pith_short_12: H4M7WT3WJKAD · pith_short_16: H4M7WT3WJKADRQIG · pith_short_8: H4M7WT3W

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/H4M7WT3WJKADRQIGFG3R4SH7A7 \
  | 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: 3f19fb4f764a8038c10629b71e48ff07fba97f39cf9fadad9aaa01454263ed1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e341ea0ca36fe33c88963fc62e4941e62344e2cc5a0b5678233f825cbb7c6c89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-21T09:19:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "41fdbbacecf77e264af1e7a7a377763fa4c2aec3e8c17b83d17f77d172eb496c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.22217",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}