Nature, a prestigious scientific journal that has been in publication for over 150 years, has introduced AlphaGeometry in a paper published on January 17th, 2024. AlphaGeometry is an AI system that can solve complex geometry problems at a level that is almost equal to that of a human Olympiad gold medalist, which is considered a significant breakthrough in AI performance. In a benchmark test that involved 30 Olympiad geometry problems, AlphaGeometry solved 25 problems within the standard Olympiad time limit. In comparison, the previous state-of-the-art system only solved 10 of these geometry problems, while the average human gold medalist solved 25.9 problems.

AlphaGeometry’s system utilises a neural language model and a rule-based deduction engine to predict and find solutions. They have developed a method to create a large number of synthetic training data examples (100 million), which allows them to train the system without the need for human input. This approach bypasses the data bottleneck and enables the system to learn without human demonstrations.

The two primary authors of AlphaGeometry are Trịnh Hoàng Triều and Lương Minh Thắng. Trịnh Hoàng Triều is a 29-year-old PhD graduate from New York University, while Lương Minh Thắng is a 36-year-old PhD from Stanford University in the USA. Along with them, there are three other scientists on the team, including PhD Lê Viết Quốc, who is 42 years old and is known as the “AI genius” at Google. Both PhD Quốc and PhD Thắng are also senior experts at Google DeepMind, which is Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) research department.

PhD Trịnh Hoàng Triều was bestowed with the honour of valedictorian of Block A1 upon his admission to the Advanced Programme in Computer Science, Class of 2013, at VNUHCM-University of Science. He earned an outstanding score on his graduation thesis.

Throughout his academic tenure, Triều participated in several international student exchange programmes, as well as internships in Canada during his second year and Japan during his third year. In July 2017, at the age of 22, he commenced employment with Google Corporation in the USA, where he was recruited for their artificial intelligence research programme.

Subsequently, Triều successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the subject of AI for solving mathematical problems at New York University. It was during his time at NYU that Triều conceived the idea for AlphaGeometry in 2019 while searching for a graduate thesis topic.

“When I was in high school, I really enjoyed doing geometry problems. However, I wasn’t skilled enough to take the national exam, so I decided to try learning about AI instead. I started by making a basic model that could solve simple problems,” shared Triều.

The article link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5  or https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphageometry-an-olympiad-level-ai-system-for-geometry/