Pith Number

pith:MM262SUA

pith:2026:MM262SUALITD4CW2HEXNDYLWO4

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A game theory for foundation models shows new paths to rational cooperation through similarity inference

Alexander Meulemans, Angelika Steger, Blaise Ag\"uera y Arcas, Blake Richards, Guillaume Lajoie, James Manyika, Jo\~ao Sacramento, Maciej Wo{\l}czyk, Marcus Hutter, Marissa A. Weis, Rajai Nasser, Rif A. Saurous, Roberta Rocca, Seijin Kobayashi

arxiv:2608.03958 v1 · 2026-08-04 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MM262SUALITD4CW2HEXNDYLWO4}

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First computed	2026-08-05T01:37:35.245163Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6335ed4a805a263e0ada392ed1e1767734304a0c0ad1bb7d06532a483c5d21a9

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.03958 · arxiv_version: 2608.03958v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.03958 · pith_short_12: MM262SUALITD · pith_short_16: MM262SUALITD4CW2 · pith_short_8: MM262SUA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MM262SUALITD4CW2HEXNDYLWO4 \
  | 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: 6335ed4a805a263e0ada392ed1e1767734304a0c0ad1bb7d06532a483c5d21a9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4edf9d20225b61980385a957713520e9c73c32371ffc5b8f38fe3f20e9840cc6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-04T17:24:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "055ce25a0a522cb691acae88669e37c7f74c69e432f8a9aa397c07c834f8b02b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.03958",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}