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Research2026-08-29 · source-backed
Stephen Chung, Wenyu Du and William J. Wesley describe an open-world environment where agents from different model families pick their own research directions with no central coordinator. Across 12 construction problems, results novel to existing literature on five: a new infinite family of finite-field Kakeya sets, exact 604-point kissing configurations in dimension 11, improved lower bounds for Erdős's minimum-overlap problem, and new infinite families for Book Ramsey numbers. The agents emitted theorems and explanations alongside numbers, and all agent dialogues, proofs and verification code are being released. The no-coordinator design is the part I'd want tested independently, because it's the opposite of every orchestration pattern currently in fashion. (arXiv)
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