UC Irvine, USC receive $2.6 million DARPA grant for AI to drive math breakthroughs – UC Irvine News

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UC Irvine and USC researchers received a $2.6 million grant from DARPA to study AI’s impact on mathematical research, focusing on its effect on mathematical discovery beyond purely solving problems.
The three-year project aims to investigate how AI tools, such as those working in number theory, partial differential equations, and computational complexity, accelerate breakthroughs in mathematical research.
Led by UC Irvine’s Jesse Wolfson, the team includes USC’s Aravind Asok and UC Irvine’s Alexa McLain, and will be conducted through workshops with mathematicians working on unsolved problems.
Unlike traditional AI assessments, this study will measure AI’s effect in active research environments, specifically examining AI’s productivity on open problems in contemporary mathematical research.
The project falls under DARPA’s Exponentiating Mathematics Program, which seeks to advance pure mathematics by developing AI systems to support advanced research.

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