Cogentic: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Automated Proof Discovery
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arXiv:2609.40324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Cogentic, a multi-agent harness for automated proof discovery on open research problems. While frontier language models can generate strong mathematical ideas in a single shot, single-shot generation is often insufficient for open problems that require exploring multiple competing conjectures, overcoming subtle technical obstructions, and retaining intermediate progress over a long horizon. Cogentic addresses these challenges through an iterative prove--verify loop in which an orchestrator allocates a population of independent provers
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.40324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Cogentic, a multi-agent harness for automated proof discovery on open research problems.
- While frontier language models can generate strong mathematical ideas in a single shot, single-shot generation is often insufficient for open problems that require exploring multiple competing conjectures, overcoming subtle technical obstructions, and retaining intermediate progress over a long horizon.
- Cogentic addresses these challenges through an iterative prove--verify loop in which an orchestrator allocates a population of independent provers
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