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The Target-Free Clique Conjecture for Threshold-Linear Networks

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Precise statement

The target-free clique conjecture asserts that the supports of stable fixed points of a nondegenerate combinatorial threshold-linear network are exactly its target-free cliques, the bidirected cliques no outside vertex receives an edge from every member of. An explicit six-neuron counterexample refutes it.

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What AI did

Codex (GPT-5.6), Claude Code (Opus 4.8, Fable 5)

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Provider: OpenAI / Anthropic · Prompt public: unknown · Independence: unknown

Verification boundary

unreviewed

The counterexample is a single fixed six-vertex graph with an explicit parameter regime, so the refutation reduces to a finite determinant and clique computation set out in the paper. Single-author arXiv preprint, not yet peer-reviewed.

Correctness: unknown · statement fidelity: unaudited · peer review: none

Timeline

  1. arXiv:2607.21396 - A six-neuron counterexample to the target-free clique conjecture

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Known method families

construction (source-reported)

Source-reported tools: construction.

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What remains uncertain

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