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Morning Edition · Friday, October 23, 2026Published at 2:19 AM EDT · New York
Microsoft Researchers Prove the 31-Year-Old KLS Conjecture With Human-Directed AI Agents
The agents explored about 100 candidate approaches under human direction, while fully autonomous runs from start to finish failed to produce a proof.
Microsoft Research announced on October 21 a proof of the Kannan-Lovász-Simonovits (KLS) conjecture, a 1995 problem in high-dimensional geometry. RuntimeWire reports that the result is credited to Microsoft researcher Xinzhi Zhang and his c…
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