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OpenAI's Unique Games Conjecture Proof Detailed in 3-Hour Talk

Scott Aaronson's blog, Shtetl-Optimized, has posted a YouTube link to a three-hour talk by Dana on OpenAI's proof of the Unique Games Conjecture. The talk details the nature of the Unique Games problem, the structure of its NP-hardness proof, and the limitations of previous attempts using Long Code and Hadamard Code. It also introduces a new tree-based code discovered by AI that overcomes these limitations, though it does not cover the soundness analysis. AI

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OpenAI's Unique Games Conjecture Proof Detailed in 3-Hour Talk

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    Dana’s talk on OpenAI’s proof of the Unique Games Conjecture, now on YouTube! https:// scottaaronson.blog/?p=10318

    Dana’s talk on OpenAI’s proof of the Unique Games Conjecture, now on YouTube! https:// scottaaronson.blog/?p=10318