Pith Number

pith:GNDKEPQJ

pith:2026:GNDKEPQJQ5W4VYZGT27HMVBFJB

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How's it going? Reinforcement learning in language models recruits a functional welfare axis

Andy Q Han, David J. Chalmers, Pavel Izmailov

arxiv:2605.30232 v1 · 2026-05-28 · cs.LG · cs.CL

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\pithnumber{GNDKEPQJQ5W4VYZGT27HMVBFJB}

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First computed	2026-05-29T02:06:13.502211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3346a23e09876dcae3269ebe765425487568f8723f548882eb2eab0503a93001

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30232 · arxiv_version: 2605.30232v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30232 · pith_short_12: GNDKEPQJQ5W4 · pith_short_16: GNDKEPQJQ5W4VYZG · pith_short_8: GNDKEPQJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GNDKEPQJQ5W4VYZGT27HMVBFJB \
  | 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: 3346a23e09876dcae3269ebe765425487568f8723f548882eb2eab0503a93001

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-28T17:03:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bba937eb41467eef6cf6818b997a495e1b7b2b4b678e833bdb121e1130a03eaf"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}