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Jan. 16, 2025
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FrontierMath competition: Setting benchmarks for AI evaluation

We are hosting a competition to establish rigorous human performance baselines for FrontierMath. With a prize pool of $10,000, your participation will contribute directly to measuring AI progress in solving challenging mathematical problems.

Tamay Besiroglu's avatarElliot Glazer's avatarCaroline Falkman Olsson's avatar
By Tamay Besiroglu, Elliot Glazer, and Caroline Falkman Olsson

We’re launching a competition to establish rigorous human performance baselines for FrontierMath, our benchmark for evaluating AI mathematical capabilities. The results will provide crucial reference points for measuring AI progress in tackling very difficult mathematics problems.

Competition Overview

  • Format: 4.5 hours solving novel mathematics problems alongside leading mathematicians
  • Guaranteed payment: $150 per participant
  • Prize pool: $10k distributed across top performers
  • Recognition: Participants acknowledged in FrontierMath baseline publication
  • Date: March 30, 2025
  • Time: Full event: 11 AM-7 PM. Competition: 12:30PM - 5PM.
  • Location: Cambridge, MA

Sign Up

We’re now encouraging interested mathematicians to sign up for the event. Please express your interest in competing below. Note that sign up does not guarantee participation, as we may need to select among applicants.

Get involved

Why Participate

This competition offers a unique opportunity to contribute to AI progress measurement while competing for substantial prizes. Results will directly inform our understanding of AI capabilities by providing clear human performance benchmarks.

Contact us

Contact us at math@epoch.ai.

About the authors

Tamay Besiroglu's avatar
Tamay Besiroglu
Tamay Besiroglu co-founded Epoch AI and remains contributing to the organization as a research advisor. He left Epoch to co-lead Mechanize, a startup building virtual work environments, benchmarks, and training data for AI development. His research expertise focuses on the economics of computing and broader trends in machine learning.
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Elliot Glazer
Elliot Glazer holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard under Hugh Woodin, with research in set theory and formal systems, especially paradoxes in the axiom of choice. He has recently worked on the foundations of proof assistants, and enjoys developing mathematical puzzles in both finite and infinite settings.
Caroline Falkman Olsson's avatar
Caroline Falkman Olsson
Caroline Falkman Olsson is an operations associate at Epoch AI, with a background in economics and statistics. She has previously worked as a predoctoral researcher at LSE’s International Inequalities Institute (III) and as a data analyst at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University.