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ProductsClément Delangue · XFrom the source· @ClementDelangue·· 6 days ago

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OpenAI’s math problems become open-source RL environments on Hugging Face

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Hugging Face
What
released open-source RL environments based on OpenAI's math problems

What happened

We turned @OpenAI's math problems into open-source RL environments on @huggingface! They are early and rough, and the verifier only accepts the exact original formalization, so an equivalent proof can still score 0. I find this an exciting direction for turning open research into executable environments anyone can build on to train better open models! https://huggingface.co/datasets/FineEnvs/openai-math

The story so far

OpenAI released more than 700 mathematics manuscripts on GitHub claiming solutions to hundreds of open problems, prompting researcher scrutiny and an effort to turn the problems into open-source reinforcement learning environments on Hugging Face. The Decoder reported that some manuscripts were withdrawn or criticized as hard to read, while the blog Proofs and Prompts collected more than 100 researcher responses. Mathematicians described shock and fears about their profession; Fields Medalists Peter Scholze and Terence Tao urged patience and solidarity. Tao argued that AI is making proofs abundant, but warned that solving a problem is not the same as understanding it, according to QbitAI. He called for reporting failed attempts and compute costs, and said imagination would become the bottleneck in what he called “Mathematics 2.0.” Clément Delangue said his team had converted OpenAI’s math problems into open-source reinforcement learning environments available on Hugging Face. He described the environments as early and rough: their verifier accepts only the exact original formalization, so an equivalent proof can still receive a score of zero.

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