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For the less mathematically inclined of us, what is in that discussion that qualifies as a problem that has not been seen before? (I don't mean this combatively
by mariusor 1y ago
For the less mathematically inclined of us, what is in that discussion that qualifies as a problem that has not been seen before? (I don't mean this combatively, I'd like to have a more mundane explanation)
- looobay 1y agoIt means something that is too out-of-data. For example if you try to make an LLM write a program in a strange or very new language it will struggle in non-trivial tasks.
- mariusor 1y agoI understand what "a new problem for an LLM is", my question is about what in the math discussion qualifies as a one. I see references to "improvements", "optimizing" and what I would describe as "iterating over existing solutions" work, not something that's "new". But as I'm not well versed into maths I was hoping that someone that considers the thread as definite proof for that, like parent seems to be, is capable of offering a dumbed down explanation for the five year olds among us. :)
- griffzhowl 11mo agoThis is a useful summary given by another poster here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833892 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
- mariusor 11mo agoI 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. :)