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OpenAI's unit distance paper adequately cites closely related prior ideas in the literature

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Melanie Matchett Wood, one of the nine verifiers, writes in the companion paper that there is a history of closely related ideas in the literature (Ellenberg and Venkatesh's class-group pigeonhole, Golod-Shafarevich towers with prescribed splitting after Hajir, Maire and Ramakrishna, class field tower lattices in coding theory) which are not appropriately referenced in the model's paper, and that a human author would be expected to cite them. The published manuscript does cite Hajir-Maire and Hajir-Maire-Ramakrishna for the tower construction and gives a broad survey of prior unit-distance work, so the shortfall concerns the pigeonhole and lattice antecedents rather than the tower. The companion paper's abstract itself supplies the missing attributions.

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https://arxiv.org/html/2605.20695v1May 20, 2026 · denies the claim Untraced · nothing upstream recorded

One other concern that directly arises in this development is that there is a history of closely related ideas in the literature, some of which are mentioned above, but which are not appropriately referenced in Chat GPT’s paper.

https://arxiv.org/html/2605.20695v1deniesextraction 0.90

Wood's reflection in the nine-author companion paper, raising citation norms as a concern about the AI-written paper and about future AI-assisted mathematics.

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