Mark M. Wilde

OpenAI, Kakeya Conjecture true in all dimensions; Exponential Time Hypothesis false; QCD and the standard model exist in 4 dimensions openai.com/index/buildi...

Congratulations to Dr. Sujeet Bhalerao, who successfully defended his PhD today! It's been a pleasure supervising him, and I'm excited to see where his journey will take him. 🥳🎓⚛️ Thanks also to the rest of the thesis committee (Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Eric Chitambar, Marius Junge, and myself)!

Spotted in Princeton, NJ! Tagging @francescoannamele.bsky.social and @antonioannamele.bsky.social

Group photo in the Poconos on the way from Ithaca to quantum.princeton.edu/pqtc2026 (with Michele Minervini, Alexander He, Greeshma Oruganti, and Kaiyuan Ji)

I should know the owner … #QIP @qipconference.bsky.social

I drew an AI charter for my group. We can't stand still, we can't depress, and nobody knows where we are heading: so we build on ethics and make a few bets. sites.google.com/site/valerio...

entropy photon number inequality claimed to be solved by openAI github.com/openai/math/...

OpenAI just dropped some 400 math papers all at once, one of which disproves the PPT-squared conjecture: github.com/openai/math/...

arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/

A free sample of BIG MATH (my new book with Alex Townsend) is now up on Amazon. Hope you like it! read.amazon.com/sample/03165...

Here's the 2026 edition

For least year's QIP, ChatGPT says that there 146 contributed regular talks. With there already being 1614 submissions to this year's QIP, if the plan is to have the same number of talks, that would amount to a 9% acceptance rate. Of course I don't know what the plan of the PC is for this year.

There will be a tsunami this week on @arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social due to the impending QIP deadline, mandatory public release of submissions, & a GPT-enabled research community. Authors are recommended to ensure their papers are online by Sept. 30 so that the submissions will be public before Oct. 5

I didn't even notice until now that we just had four different papers appear simultaneously on the strong converse for quantum channel discrimination in the parallel setting: arxiv.org/abs/2609.27196 arxiv.org/abs/2609.28635 arxiv.org/abs/2609.29885 arxiv.org/abs/2609.30268

I always considered determining the classical capacity of the amplitude damping channel to be a major open problem in quantum Shannon theory. There is now a paper released that claims a solution: arxiv.org/abs/2609.28592

Lots of fantastic opportunities to do an 8-week (paid) research internship with my colleagues in the School of CS at #USyd! The projects I am proposing are CS2026-27/10 Pseudo deterministic Quantum Algorithms CS2026-27/18 Feasibility of Quantum One Time Programs but the whole list is worth is read!

I'm a fan of publishing everything. It's not like we'll run out of space on the Internet. The good stuff will bubble up through social media and AI-powered searching.

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

I used to watch my health to make sure my mind would stay sharp for doing research. Now, with AI & LLMs, I can be completely drunk and totally high all the time, just supervising the research process by typing a few words and clicking some buttons while sipping my beers and smoking my doobies. Nice!

Gilles Brassard speaking at the dinner banquet of TQC 2026: "Work on research problems that you enjoy"

Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming. Has any noticed that AI is getting much better at math?

Joint work "Flood of multipartite Rains entanglement" w/ Hailey Murray et al. (incl. @mvscerezo.bsky.social) now available: arxiv.org/abs/2608.11406 We define several multipartite entanglement measures, including the Rains, monsoon, hurricane, & squall entanglement. Paper dedicated to Eric Rains!

This is how tenure ends.

blog.arxiv.org/2026/07/30/a...

I wonder if I should start submitting my papers to physics.pop-ph instead of quant-ph in order to have fewer competing papers in the same arXiv subcategory. Only two entries during the past week!