{"id":309034,"date":"2026-01-29T02:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:18:08","slug":"chinese-ai-goes-next-level-in-geometry-at-a-top-us-maths-olympiad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309034\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI goes next level in geometry at a top US maths Olympiad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AI<\/a> system has outperformed its US competitors in solving geometry problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) level, taking less than half the time and using simpler computational resources, according to its developers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Unlike existing models confined to problem-solving, the Chinese system can also generate mathematical problems \u2013 three of which appeared in a Chinese national team qualifying exam and a top Olympiad in the United States in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe present TongGeometry, a neuro-symbolic system that discovers, proposes and proves IMO-level geometry problems through principled tree search,\u201d researchers from the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/peking-university?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peking University<\/a> wrote in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Machine Intelligence on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The developers of TongGeometry said the system \u201cfunctioned more like a coach who both designs training problems and guides solution strategies, rather than merely a student who solves given problems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This diagram illustrates TongGeometry\u2019s method for navigating tree-structured geometry spaces while preserving symmetry. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/54b0374d-c2cd-4c13-aff2-64bf68c444ca_4a91310f.jpg\" title=\"This diagram illustrates TongGeometry\u2019s method for navigating tree-structured geometry spaces while preserving symmetry. Photo: Handout\"\/>This diagram illustrates TongGeometry\u2019s method for navigating tree-structured geometry spaces while preserving symmetry. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Drawing on 196 past Olympiad geometry problems, the system generated 6.7 billion geometry problems that required auxiliary constructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese AI system has outperformed its US competitors in solving geometry problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[151287,151285,151284,18,20321,19,113342,17,151288,51244,151289,24390,82,151286,151290],"class_list":{"0":"post-309034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-alphageometry","9":"tag-beijing-institute-for-general-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-chinese-ai-researchers","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-google-deepmind","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-international-mathematical-olympiad","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-nature-machine-intelligence","17":"tag-new-york-university","18":"tag-nvidia-rtx-4090-gpu","19":"tag-peking-university","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-tonggeometry","22":"tag-us-ersatz-math-olympiad"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115975992895298183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}