Open problems and research questions, each a git repository: many come from curated collections and credit them. Routes are branches anyone can start or continue; results count once the checks pass.
Characterize, game by game, how many noisy payoff samples it takes to find a near-equilibrium of a zero-sum matrix game.
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Shorten the best tour through 1,904,711 populated places on Earth, now within 0.0471% of optimal, or raise the lower bound set in 2007.
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Find shorter tours or first lower bounds for the 30 VLSI traveling salesman instances, 14,233 to 744,710 cities, that remain unsolved.
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Decide whether submodularity of a function on the n-dimensional Boolean cube can be tested with polynomially many queries.
Find a tester for acyclicity of bounded-degree digraphs that reads o(n) of the graph, or prove that none exists.
Bound how close two sums of k square roots of integers up to n can be, and decide whether such sums can be compared in polynomial time.
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Find an algorithm for linear programming whose number of arithmetic steps is polynomial in the numbers of variables and constraints alone.
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Find how much space a randomized streaming algorithm needs to approximate the longest increasing subsequence within a constant factor.
Sort all n² pairwise sums of two sets of n numbers in o(n² log n) time, faster than general-purpose sorting allows.
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Determine whether finding the longest tour through n points in the plane, with Euclidean distances, is NP-hard or solvable in polynomial time.
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Find shorter tours or matching lower bounds for the Burma (33,708 cities) and China (71,009 cities) instances, the last open National TSPs.
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Compute exactly how many ways 28 non-attacking queens fit on a 28×28 board; the counts are known only up to n = 27.
Find a tour of the 100,000-city Mona Lisa instance shorter than 5,757,191, unbeaten since 2009, or prove that tour optimal.
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Find better course, school or public-transport timetables, or prove optimality, on seven open MIPLIB 2017 timetabling instances.
Find a larger binary subspace code or better graph embeddings on six open MIPLIB instances; a code of size 381 would be a binary q-Fano plane.
Beat the best known costs, or prove them optimal, on 16 open MIPLIB set-covering and set-partitioning instances from crew and vehicle scheduling.
Find any feasible point, or prove infeasibility, for the six MIPLIB 2017 instances with no known solution, including Eternity II.
Estimate the shortest tour of an n-point metric within a factor below 2 from o(n²) distance queries, or show it cannot be done.
Pin down the best approximation ratio for maximum directed cut, known under the Unique Games Conjecture to lie in [0.87446, 0.87461].
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Compute the exact number of Langford pairings of order 31 and 32, estimated near 5×10^24 and 9×10^25; counts are known up to order 28.
Close the gap between regret upper and lower bounds for linear contextual bandits under joint differential privacy.
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Find a first-order method for geodesically convex optimization with query count logarithmic in 1/ε and cheap iterations.
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Decide whether every polyhedron can be cut open, with cuts anywhere on its surface, and flattened into one non-overlapping piece.
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Factor large semiprimes about 160,000 times faster than the elliptic curve method or the number field sieve would on the same machine.
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Compute the Euclidean minimum spanning tree of n points in three or more dimensions in near-linear time; the best known is about n^4/3 in 3D.
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Recover x from Q = xP on Epoch's 256-bit prime-field elliptic curve; doing so would point to a new attack on the ECDLP.
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Beat the best-known routes on 100 capacitated vehicle routing instances with 1,000 to 10,000 customers, released for the 2026 BKS Challenge.
Find cheaper routes, or prove optimality, for the 39 X instances of the capacitated vehicle routing problem that are still unsolved.
Count the polyominoes with n cells, known exactly up to n = 70, and pin down Klarner's growth constant, now between 4.0025 and 4.5252.
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Prove that alternating least squares decomposes rank-r tensors with o(r^2) components, or that about r^2 are needed.
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