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Definitely 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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From what I've seen, IMO question sets are very diverse. Moreover, humans also train on all available set of math olympiad questions and similar sets too. It seems fair game to have the AI train on them as well.

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.

You mean as in the previous years questions will have been used to train it? Yes, they are the same questions and due to them limited format on math questions, there are repeats so LLMs should fundamentally be able to recognise a structure and similarities and use that.

you either completely misinformed on the topic or a troll

They are not the same question, why are you spreading so much misinformed takes in this thread? I know a guy who had one of the best scores in history at IMO and he's incredibly intelligent. Stop repeating that getting a gold medal at IMO is a piece of cake - it's not.

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