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Updates on my research and expository papers, discussion of open problems, and other maths-related topics. By Terence Tao 5 November, 2025 in math.CA, math.CO, math.MG, paper | Tags: Adam Zsolt Wagner, AlphaEvolve, Artificial Intelligence, Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, optimization | by Terence Tao Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gómez-Serrano, Adam Zsolt Wagner, and I have uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale“. This is a longer report on the experiments we did in collaboration with Google Deepmind with their AlphaEvolve tool, which is in the process of being made available for broader use. Some of our experiments were already reported on in a previous white paper, but the current paper provides more details, as well as a link to a repository with various relevant data such as the prompts used and the evolution of the tool outputs. AlphaEvolve is a variant of more traditional optimization tools that are designed to extremize some given score

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