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pith:2026:UVZKDAHOXZRQ6DIJ4GYMYQU2FA

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Teaching Models to Teach Themselves: Reasoning at the Edge of Learnability

Ariel Kwiatkowski, John Quan, Julia Kempe, Kartik Ahuja, Shobhita Sundaram, Yann Ollivier

arxiv:2601.18778 v3 · 2026-01-26 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-07-01T01:18:24.161911Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

a572a180eebe630f0d09e1b0cc429a283d324363f09492459bb6e1b0308d570f

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arxiv: 2601.18778 · arxiv_version: 2601.18778v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.18778 · pith_short_12: UVZKDAHOXZRQ · pith_short_16: UVZKDAHOXZRQ6DIJ · pith_short_8: UVZKDAHO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UVZKDAHOXZRQ6DIJ4GYMYQU2FA \
  | 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: a572a180eebe630f0d09e1b0cc429a283d324363f09492459bb6e1b0308d570f

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-26T18:46:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "483cc36cb366f65344686c123a026b4468752615d4ccfdd4875583dbd8d6e703"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}