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No LLM Solved Yu Tsumura's 554th Problem

Machine Learning 2025-08-06 v1

Abstract

We show, contrary to the optimism about LLM's problem-solving abilities, fueled by the recent gold medals that were attained, that a problem exists -- Yu Tsumura's 554th problem -- that a) is within the scope of an IMO problem in terms of proof sophistication, b) is not a combinatorics problem which has caused issues for LLMs, c) requires fewer proof techniques than typical hard IMO problems, d) has a publicly available solution (likely in the training data of LLMs), and e) that cannot be readily solved by any existing off-the-shelf LLM (commercial or open-source).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2508.03685,
  title  = {No LLM Solved Yu Tsumura's 554th Problem},
  author = {Simon Frieder and William Hart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.03685},
  year   = {2025}
}

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67 pages

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