Second, happy to test it on open math conjectures or by attempting to reprove recent math results.
OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
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#12Progress is astounding. Recently report published about evaluation of LLMs on IMO 2025. o3 high didn't even get bronze. https://matharena.ai/imo/ Waiting for Terry Tao's thoughts, but these kind of things are good use of AI. We need to make science progress faster rather than disrupting our economy without being ready.
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#13Definitely interesting. Two thoughts. First, are the IMO questions somewhat related to other openly available questions online, making it easier for LLMs that are more efficient and better at reasoning to deduce the results from the available content? Second, happy to test it on open math conjectures or by attempting to reprove recent math results.
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#15Definitely interesting. Two thoughts. First, are the IMO questions somewhat related to other openly available questions online, making it easier for LLMs that are more efficient and better at reasoning to deduce the results from the available content? Second, happy to test it on open math conjectures or by attempting to reprove recent math results.
For 2, there's an army of independent mathematicians right now using automated theorem provers to formalise more or less all mathematics as we know it. It seems like open conjectures are chiefly bounded by a genuine lack of new tools/mathematics.
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#16Professional mathematicians would not get this level of performance, unless they have a background in IMO themselves.
This doesn’t mean that the model is better than them in math, just that mathematicians specialize in extending the frontier of math.
The answers are not in the training data.
This is not a model specialized to IMO problems.
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Which would be impressive if we knew those problems weren't in the training data already. I mean it is quite impressive how language models are able to mobilize the knowledge they have been trained on, especially since they are able to retrieve information from sources that may be formatted very differently, with completely different problem statement sentences, different variable names and so on, and really operate…
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#19These are high school level only in the sense of assumed background knowledge, they are extremely difficult. Professional mathematicians would not get this level of performance, unless they have a background in IMO themselves. This doesn’t mean that the model is better than them in math, just that mathematicians specialize in extending the frontier of math. The answers are not in the training data. This is not a mode…
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Velocity of AI progress in recent years is exceeded only by velocity of goalposts.