@article{surviveorcollapsetheasymmetricrolesofdat,
  title = {Survive or Collapse: The Asymmetric Roles of Data Gating and Reward Grounding in Self-Play RL},
  author = {Sophia Xiao Pu and Zhaotian Weng and Chengzhi Liu and Jayanth Srinivasa and Gaowen Liu and William Yang Wang and Xin Eric Wang},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.22217},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22217},
}