Out of curiosity why has the LLM math solving community been focused on the Erdos problems over other open problems? Are they of a certain nature where we would expect LLMs to be especially good at solving them?

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krackers 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I guess they are at a difficulty where it's not too hard (unlike millennium prize problems), is fairly tightly scoped (unlike open ended research), and has some gravitas (so it's not some obscure theorem that's only unproven because of it's lack of noteworthiness).

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Davidzheng 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I actually don't think the reason is that they are easier than other open math problems. I think it's more that they are "elementary" in the sense that the problems usually don't require a huge amount of domain knowledge to state.

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xigoi 13 hours ago | parent [-]

The Collatz conjecture can be stated using basic arithmetic, yet LLMs have not been able to solve it.

	▲	Davidzheng 13 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I agree it's easier than Collatz. I just mean I am not sure it's much easier than many currently open questions which are less famous but need more machinery.
	▲	_fizz_buzz_ 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That is also one of the hardest problems.

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becquerel 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People like checking items off of lists.