Pith Number

pith:P5H23MBQ

pith:2026:P5H23MBQ22NRWCMGHCELTWIJ2S

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measuring Reward-Seeking via Contrastive Belief Updates

Alexander Meinke, Axel H{\o}jmark, Bronson Schoen, Evgenia Nitishinskaya, Felix Hofst\"atter, Jason Wolfe, J\'er\'emy Scheurer, Theodore Ehrenborg

arxiv:2607.18966 v1 · 2026-07-21 · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P5H23MBQ22NRWCMGHCELTWIJ2S}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-22T01:23:22.215176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7f4fadb030d69b1b09863888b9d909d4b01c52bcc10ea49ae455fd2731577a1f

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.18966 · arxiv_version: 2607.18966v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.18966 · pith_short_12: P5H23MBQ22NR · pith_short_16: P5H23MBQ22NRWCMG · pith_short_8: P5H23MBQ

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/P5H23MBQ22NRWCMGHCELTWIJ2S \
  | 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: 7f4fadb030d69b1b09863888b9d909d4b01c52bcc10ea49ae455fd2731577a1f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "defde27fce502e3e7ebc00d28ba2f59566050630026203fc391d16df36281a81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-21T10:57:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4ad81fd13a950b828ba651e0f071216f8a9f3bea3f67a3e9cb19e378491b53e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.18966",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}