Guiding GPT 5.6 Proofs Using Weaker Propositions
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-19
A user shared a technique for solving mathematical conjectures using GPT 5.6: when the model gets stuck on a difficult problem, prompt it to first find the "weakest proposition that can imply the conjecture." Intuitively, this proposition should almost be the original conjecture itself, but in this case, the rewrite successfully guided the model to a viable proof path.
The key takeaway of the post isn't that "the theorem has been proven," but rather a reasoning guidance strategy: rewriting the goal into a weaker statement that is still sufficient to derive the original conclusion might help the model break out of a local deadlock.
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