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LEARNING COLLATZ - THE MOTHER OF ALL RABBIT HOLES

axiommath.ai17 min read

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The Collatz conjecture is one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. It asks whether repeating two simple arithmetic operations will eventually transform every positive integer into 1. This article looks at what happens when a transformer is trained on the unsolved puzzle to study how models fail.