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AlphaEvolve sets new lower bounds for five Ramsey numbers

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DeepMind used AlphaEvolve to establish new lower bounds for five classical Ramsey numbers, an extremal combinatorics problem Erdős himself joked about the difficulty of.

Reported metric: 5 Ramsey numbers

Reporting date: 2026-03-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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AlphaEvolve sets new lower bounds for five Ramsey numbers
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Reporting date: 2026-03-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-13-alphaevolve-improves-ramsey-bounds
Claim: DeepMind used AlphaEvolve to establish new lower bounds for five classical Ramsey numbers, an extremal combinatorics problem Erdős himself joked about the difficulty of.
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