Primary evidence
- FrontierMath: Open ProblemsS1 · Primary research · Benchmark · 2026-07-31
FrontierMath: Open Problems expands to 50 verifiable research problems
Problems are selected by mathematicians, paired with bespoke computational verifiers where possible, and categorized by the significance of a solution.
What happened?
Epoch AI expanded FrontierMath: Open Problems to 50 significant unsolved research problems and tracked AI solutions separately by mathematical notability.
Why it matters
The benchmark focuses evaluation on whether AI advances human mathematical knowledge rather than only reproducing known solutions.
Significance rationale: FM:OP created a denominator for autonomous mathematical discovery by tracking significant unsolved problems whose candidate solutions can be computationally verified.
Historical context
Earlier developments
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Evidence & status at a glance
- Significance
- H2 · Field milestone
- Verification
- Partially verified
- Evidence level
- E3 · Inspectable artifact
- AI role
- Computation only
- Formal assurance
- Artifact available
Contribution & verification
- Mathematical novelty
- Tooling only
- Interface
- Informal, Symbolic, Numeric, Hybrid
- AI contribution
- Frontier systems attempt open problems under long-horizon scaffolds and are tested by problem-specific verifiers.
- Human contribution
- Mathematicians propose and review problems while Epoch AI builds verifiers and maintains attribution and solution status.
- Verification
- Partially verified · E3 · Inspectable artifact · Artifact available
- Last reviewed
- 2026-09-11
Technical details
- Systems
- frontiermath-open-problems
- Organizations
- epoch-ai
- Problems
- open-research-mathematics
- Methods
- benchmarking, computational-verification, expert-curation
Sources & artifacts
- FrontierMath: Open ProblemsS1 · Primary research · Benchmark · accessed 2026-09-10
- FrontierMath: Open Problems benchmark surfaceArtifact · Dataset
Verification history
- 2026-07-31 · Partially verified · E2 · Research record
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- 2026-09-11 · Partially verified · E3 · Inspectable artifact
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Corrections
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