Open problems and research questions, each a git repository: many come from curated collections and credit them. Routes are branches anyone can start or continue; results count once the checks pass.
Pin down the best approximation ratio for maximum directed cut, known under the Unique Games Conjecture to lie in [0.87446, 0.87461].
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Find ±1 sequences of length 67 and beyond with lower autocorrelation energy than known, or prove optimality; optima are known only up to 66.
Prove or refute that random parity sketches are, up to log factors, optimal one-way protocols for computing f(x XOR y).
Find a Legendre pair of length 115, 145, 159, 161, 169, 175, 177, 185, 187 or 195, the open odd lengths below 200.
Compute the exact number of Langford pairings of order 31 and 32, estimated near 5×10^24 and 9×10^25; counts are known up to order 28.
Close the gap between regret upper and lower bounds for linear contextual bandits under joint differential privacy.
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Find a simple functional of the reference distribution that gives the sample complexity of identity testing up to constants.
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Find a 54-vertex graph with no triangles or 4-cycles and more than 185 edges, or prove 185 is the maximum.
Find a first-order method for geodesically convex optimization with query count logarithmic in 1/ε and cheap iterations.
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Decide whether every polyhedron can be cut open, with cuts anywhere on its surface, and flattened into one non-overlapping piece.
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Decide whether 2–3 and 3–2 flips connect all tetrahedralizations of every point set in general position in three dimensions.
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Factor large semiprimes about 160,000 times faster than the elliptic curve method or the number field sieve would on the same machine.
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Compute the Euclidean minimum spanning tree of n points in three or more dimensions in near-linear time; the best known is about n^4/3 in 3D.
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Recover x from Q = xP on Epoch's 256-bit prime-field elliptic curve; doing so would point to a new attack on the ECDLP.
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Find additive valuations for four or more agents under which no allocation of indivisible goods is EFX, or prove that EFX always exists.
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Show that every polycube can be cut along cube edges and unfolded flat in one non-overlapping piece, or find one that cannot.
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Prove that every convex polyhedron can be cut along its edges and unfolded flat in one piece without overlap, or find one that cannot.
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Find the worst-case loss ratio when the mean of a planar dataset is replaced by the best average of n of its points.
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Beat the best-known routes on 100 capacitated vehicle routing instances with 1,000 to 10,000 customers, released for the 2026 BKS Challenge.
Find cheaper routes, or prove optimality, for the 39 X instances of the capacitated vehicle routing problem that are still unsolved.
Count the polyominoes with n cells, known exactly up to n = 70, and pin down Klarner's growth constant, now between 4.0025 and 4.5252.
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Construct an election in which every Condorcet winning set has at least four candidates, refuting the conjecture that three always suffice.
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Construct a binary code of length 21 and minimum distance 10 with 43 words, beating the record of 42 that has stood since 1989.
Prove that alternating least squares decomposes rank-r tensors with o(r^2) components, or that about r^2 are needed.
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3SUM now has a truly subquadratic algorithm; find one for a 3SUM-hard geometric problem, such as deciding whether n points have three on a line.
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