Open-source agent burns 106M tokens in 52 hours chasing an open math problem
GuiltyBookkeeper4849 · reddit · 2026-09-22
A developer is running an open-source autonomous agent against the open covering design problem C(25,15,5), where the best known solution uses 42 groups and the goal is 41.
- Live for 52+ hours, having processed 106,406,666 tokens; best solution so far improved to 44 groups
- All internal reasoning, memories and attempts are publicly inspectable (artificium-covering-experiment.gr.bio), with a real-time independent verifier for correctness
- Powered by open-source Qwen 27B plus a custom harness for autonomous work and continual learning (GitHub: officialgr/agent-artificium)
- Reproducible on consumer hardware (5090 on RunPod, 3090 feasible); reaching 41 would be the first open-source-agent math research breakthrough
- Author is seeking donations and compute sponsors
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