Pith Number

pith:Y6WZPXWM

pith:2026:Y6WZPXWMVRV6ZRNHD2KNGHT6FX

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Self-Play Only Evolves When Self-Synthetic Pipeline Ensures Learnable Information Gain

Siya Qi, Wei Liu, Yali Du, Yulan He

arxiv:2603.02218 v2 · 2026-02-10 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y6WZPXWMVRV6ZRNHD2KNGHT6FX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:02:10.293380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c7ad97deccac6becc5a71e94d31e7e2dde2bb8e9e1f0a44e443ecec85434b46e

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.02218 · arxiv_version: 2603.02218v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.02218 · pith_short_12: Y6WZPXWMVRV6 · pith_short_16: Y6WZPXWMVRV6ZRNH · pith_short_8: Y6WZPXWM

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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/Y6WZPXWMVRV6ZRNHD2KNGHT6FX \
  | 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: c7ad97deccac6becc5a71e94d31e7e2dde2bb8e9e1f0a44e443ecec85434b46e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4bc666af11a3bb97cd65a65468a6313ee8651ff4eb7477fafafb127708f720ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-10T08:12:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "55496a0b9781c4ebfd6631f51b8a50c976d679447d178bc90cf70b9f87f63f95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.02218",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}