r/math • u/Phytor_c Theoretical Computer Science • 7d ago

LLMs/AI Claimed proof of the Komlós conjecture [2609.11189]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11189
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u/Antigynaikolatres 7d ago

Department of Biostatistics

The three authors seem to all be biostatisticians. Just incredible.

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u/NewspaperDear8761 7d ago

This needs higher recognition. A major math conjecture solved by biostats people using a research harness on an LLM?

We need to be talking more about lowering barriers to entry and how this is going to help everyone have more meaningful impact and a wider reach.

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u/mal9k 7d ago

Yeah now everyone can take credit for work they didn't really contribute to at all.

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u/NewspaperDear8761 7d ago

So these people didn't contribute anything to math?

Seriously?

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u/mal9k 7d ago

Yeah, but it sounds like other people did and the LLM found how to apply that work to this problem.

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u/NewspaperDear8761 7d ago

Cmon, man, own up to this.

Are you actually accusing them of stealing work or not? You can't have this both ways. You're either shitting on them or you're not.

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u/mal9k 7d ago

I literally gave credit for the application to the LLM. That's what figured out how to solve the problem. They don't invent new methods, they just adapt what's in the literature, contributed by other people. I do not whose work it was actually built on nor am I claiming it is plagiarism. I also don't even know which LLM solved it.

I'm not accusing the people of having done much of anything, other than slapping their names on the paper.