Pith Number

pith:QNTXHFKR

pith:2026:QNTXHFKRYJFCULRIU3LWZZECP7

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Recursive Self-Improvement in AI: From Bounded Self-Refinement to Autonomous Research Loops

Bo Qu, Licheng Wang, Mingguang Chen

arxiv:2607.07663 v1 · 2026-07-08 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{QNTXHFKRYJFCULRIU3LWZZECP7}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-09T01:20:38.363460Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8367739551c24a2a2e28a6d76ce4827fd2abf756c39be93cc0849c8649c17564

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.07663 · arxiv_version: 2607.07663v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.07663 · pith_short_12: QNTXHFKRYJFC · pith_short_16: QNTXHFKRYJFCULRI · pith_short_8: QNTXHFKR

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QNTXHFKRYJFCULRIU3LWZZECP7 \
  | 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: 8367739551c24a2a2e28a6d76ce4827fd2abf756c39be93cc0849c8649c17564

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c05e352f73691c6a2928a3fe04cb155a16d67ee4f8e4a7661ed86feb2541834e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T17:19:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "681ae9dc9ef8129d5681883dae402a2f80c2254f3c54ebee6a25edc51489b5c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.07663",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}