OpenAI reports graph decomposition at the integral expectation threshold

Every graph can be partitioned into a universally bounded number of fixed edge pieces, each with ordinary random-graph containment threshold at most a universal constant times the original graph’s integral expectation threshold.

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What was already known

Park and Pham established ordinary threshold comparison with a logarithmic factor. The Ascoli–He–Park–Talagrand graph-decomposition conjecture asked whether that loss disappears after a bounded partition into pieces.

AI involvement AI-led

OpenAI credits itself as manuscript author and states that its internal frontier model produced the results in this release. Individual human input is not detailed enough to establish task-only autonomy.

OpenAI is named as author on the manuscript, and its release attributes the results to an internal frontier model. The individual human input is not detailed enough to establish autonomy.

Importance Notable

Resolves the graph-decomposition conjecture and removes the logarithmic threshold loss for each piece.

Limitations

The pieces are chosen before sampling, and their separate embeddings need not agree on shared vertices. The linked Lean scope checks Talagrand threshold and discrete-convexity statements, not this decomposition.

Technical verification Reported

Reported is the default when evidence for a higher level is insufficient. The OpenAI-authored manuscript reports and argues the result, but the reviewed sources do not document a completed check of the full assessed claim.

Human understanding Few

Few is the default when evidence for a higher level is insufficient. No named person is documented as explaining the central argument for this assessed contribution.

Correction and publication history

2026-10-18 · publication

Primary manuscript, attribution, prior-work, and Lean-scope mismatch review for non-notifying local inclusion.

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