Survival is the Only Reward: Sustainable Self-Training Through Environment-Mediated Selection

arXiv:2601.12310 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-01-18 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-01-18

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/EigenformAI/Negative-Space-Learning

Terminology

• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Meta-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Objective Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reward Hacking — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Reward Shaping — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Drift — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Generalising from Self-Produced Data: Model Training Beyond Human Constraints
• SuperRL: Reinforcement Learning with Supervision to Boost Language Model Reasoning

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