Pith Number

pith:JN25CBIE

pith:2025:JN25CBIEBKAQ2CBTIMCBCOHZ2B

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Truly Self-Improving Agents Require Intrinsic Metacognitive Learning

Mihaela van der Schaar, Tennison Liu

arxiv:2506.05109 v1 · 2025-06-05 · cs.AI

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

Managing Procedural Memory in LLM Agents: Control, Adaptation, and Evaluation

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:16:42.488193Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4b75d105040a810d083343041138f9d062d6b34e586a9b99545c6b54d6a127fb

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.05109 · arxiv_version: 2506.05109v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.05109 · pith_short_12: JN25CBIEBKAQ · pith_short_16: JN25CBIEBKAQ2CBT · pith_short_8: JN25CBIE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JN25CBIEBKAQ2CBTIMCBCOHZ2B \
  | 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: 4b75d105040a810d083343041138f9d062d6b34e586a9b99545c6b54d6a127fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be8345f401a2fd9105a5528b7a8fde336fdaa8b0eb330aedb2545b41da691438",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-05T14:53:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aafb800d6cd1b984ad2c1e0662f162c41dd9329348432773cdd8ec09a2ca7c98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.05109",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}