Pith Number

pith:CCXVZPOL

pith:2026:CCXVZPOLHD34TWKTAXCEJHKXFK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

More Yap Less Meaning: Uncovering Self-Improvement Behavior in SLMs

Erik Arakelyan, Marina Igitkhanian

arxiv:2606.08471 v1 · 2026-06-07 · cs.CL · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CCXVZPOLHD34TWKTAXCEJHKXFK}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:37.560926Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

10af5cbdcb38f7c9d95305c4449d572aa7d4d2627f9cd7bfbed819a7cbec939f

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08471 · arxiv_version: 2606.08471v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08471 · pith_short_12: CCXVZPOLHD34 · pith_short_16: CCXVZPOLHD34TWKT · pith_short_8: CCXVZPOL

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/CCXVZPOLHD34TWKTAXCEJHKXFK \
  | 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: 10af5cbdcb38f7c9d95305c4449d572aa7d4d2627f9cd7bfbed819a7cbec939f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1637ca88c63613a7f587c2a968f0febd1a3c06ddb4276e70667f73c0e141118d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-07T06:27:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18c0dae955de89151cfba0a610d27153290561962c97d8ac9cda9716ae38c89a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08471",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}