Niket Patel(@niketnpatel):“An accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” - Poincaré LLMs are now proving results that have resisted mathematicians for decades. Finding interesting theorems without human guidance is a new bottleneck. We show that we can teach an LLM to do it! TL;DR: → a quantitative notion of interestingness → 4.3× higher interestingness → a self-expanding discovery loop [1/5]

Niket Patel

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Deep Learning & Math, phding @ NYU (Prev. UCLA)

Joined November 2023

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Niket Patel@niketnpatel

2026.09.25 14:17

“An accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” - Poincaré LLMs are now proving results that have resisted mathematicians for decades. Finding interesting theorems without human guidance is a new bottleneck. We show that we can teach an LLM to do it! TL;DR: → a quantitative notion of interestingness → 4.3× higher interestingness → a self-expanding discovery loop [1/5]