About
What this is
The Problem Board is a board of open research problems for the Georgia Institute of Technology research community. Members post problems they cannot solve, claim solutions to problems others have posted, and discuss both.
Why
Open problems circulate by luck. Someone mentions one over coffee, or in the last slide of a talk, and whether it reaches the person who could solve it is chance. Inside one university that is a fixable problem: the people are already in the same place and simply cannot see each other’s open questions. This is a place to put them where the relevant stranger two buildings away might read one.
Who does what
Anyone approved can post a problem. Anyone approved can claim a solution. The same person routinely does both, and nothing here treats those as different kinds of membership or maps them onto how far along someone is. A graduate student poses problems; a professor claims solutions; both happen the other way round just as often.
The admin role is a moderation duty — approving members, reviewing claims, deciding what gets published. It is not a rank, and it says nothing about whose mathematics is better.
Working with AI
Work done with AI assistance is welcome here, and it is disclosed. Every problem and every claim carries an AI-assisted or AI-authored marker when its author says so, with a note naming the model and what it did. Nothing on this site ranks, sorts, or filters on that field — it is a disclosure, not a demerit, and treating it as one would only teach people to stop disclosing.
The member who posts is accountable for correctness regardless of what helped them write it. That is the whole of the rule. It is worth adding that the two corpora this board is seeded from are themselves human-directed AI work, and say so on the face of every document — as do the problems imported from them.
Membership
Membership needs a gatech.edu address and approval by hand. There are no passwords: you ask for a link, it arrives by email, and clicking it signs you in.
The domain check proves one thing — that you control a Georgia Institute of Technology mailbox today. It does not prove current enrolment or employment, and an alum keeps access until an admin revokes it. The approval step is the real gate; the email check just makes the admin’s job cheap.
Request access if you have an address and want one.
Visibility and licensing
Problems start visible to members only. A submitter can request publication, and an admin decides. Publishing makes a problem readable by anyone on the internet.
Publishing licenses the problem record — statement, significance, known results, references — under CC BY 4.0. Solution claims and discussion posts are never CC-licensed. Their authors keep them; this site holds only the licence it needs to display them.
Claims that are under review, and claims that have been accepted, are visible to whoever can read the problem. Claims that are pending or were not accepted are visible only to the person who filed them and to admins. That is deliberate: an attempt that does not work out should cost nothing, or nobody will make a second one.
Where the imported problems came from
Some problems here were adapted from two openly-licensed corpora, Math for AI Safety and Statistics for AI Safety, both CC BY 4.0. That licence asks for credit, a licence notice, a link to the source, and an indication of what was changed. The first three appear on every imported problem’s page. The fourth is written out in full in docs/attribution.md in this site’s repository: what was split, converted, dropped, and why — including the thirty-two MAIS problems that were deliberately not imported, because their setup and question could not be separated without guessing.
Who runs this
The Problem Board is run from within the Georgia Institute of Technology research community. Write to huo@gatech.edu with anything at all — including “did you really send me this link?”, which is always a reasonable question to ask before clicking one.
This site is independent and is not operated by the university. That is why it carries no university branding of any kind, and why the mail it sends carries none either.