Pith Number

pith:ILWPYN5G

pith:2022:ILWPYN5GN4UGUOJ6FA3TTRUY5R

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Reward is not Necessary: How to Create a Modular & Compositional Self-Preserving Agent for Life-Long Learning

Thomas J. Ringstrom

arxiv:2211.10851 v4 · 2022-11-20 · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ILWPYN5GN4UGUOJ6FA3TTRUY5R}

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Agent-centric learning: from external reward maximization to internal knowledge curation

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First computed	2026-07-05T07:12:47.371708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42ecfc37a66f286a393e283739c698ec444c8c76045d57eb59ba84fef71f144a

Aliases

arxiv: 2211.10851 · arxiv_version: 2211.10851v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.10851 · pith_short_12: ILWPYN5GN4UG · pith_short_16: ILWPYN5GN4UGUOJ6 · pith_short_8: ILWPYN5G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ILWPYN5GN4UGUOJ6FA3TTRUY5R \
  | 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: 42ecfc37a66f286a393e283739c698ec444c8c76045d57eb59ba84fef71f144a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b728fa68dc2fd3b78c11bbe608d7e2339d3ce2e19868bd4cf3689707c31f74b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2022-11-20T02:48:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f800c0480fd2f5b368619f8a7c491318f25115b8e9aece4f3477cf3b141fb199"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2211.10851",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}