Quantum sensor team uses GPT-5.6 Pro + Codex on Inverse Galois Problem, ranks 14th on IGP24 leaderboard
paulfinneyx · x · 2026-09-10
Dirac Labs — two researchers from quantum sensing and category theory backgrounds — spent a month attacking the Inverse Galois Problem (IGP24, degree 24) with GPT-5.6 Pro and Codex, ranking 14th on SAIRfoundation's leaderboard.
- The task is inverse construction: specify how an equation's roots should behave, then find an equation matching, working via splitting fields and Galois group (automorphism) analysis.
- The team published a full retrospective on the AI collaboration: what worked, what failed, and what could be independently verified, combining computational algebra with AI-generated proofs and code.
- A rare first-hand public record of AI contributing directly to frontier algebra research.
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