Re:Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
by mariusor on Friday November 07, 2025 @01:39PM
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I had seen that post, and frankly it didn't pass my smell test of "LLM solves entirely new problems". But again, I'm not a mathematician to know what "unsolved problems" means in the context of the ones they gave AlphaEvolve, and more than that I'm entirely a skeptic on LLM solves problems that don't exist in their training data, so I'm biased. However the request for details is genuine. :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833892
The novel results seem to be incremental improvements on some obscurely-named inequalities that I'm not personally familiar with, but I'm far from this field of maths