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Bounded Recursive Self-Improvement Under Human Governance: Evidence from a Seven-Cycle Reinforcement Learning Contour Experiment

2026-08-17

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Recursive self-improvement is commonly framed as repeated self-modification that yields progressively greater capability. That framing leaves a prior methodological problem unresolved: how can a system distinguish a genuine improvement from a change that merely satisfies an evaluation procedure that the same system helped construct? This paper reports a seven-cycle instrumented experiment using a governed implemen...

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Literature Corpus work: ffbc1e7a-98ea-58ad-90e8-f9e14fae5e33
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202608.0975.v2

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