Published on August 22, 2025 9:46 PM GMT Our posts on natural latents have involved twodistinct definitions, which we call "stochastic" and "deterministic" natural latents. We conjectured that, whenever there exists a stochastic natural latent (to within some approximation), there also exists a deterministic natural latent (to within a comparable approximation). Four months ago, we put up a bounty to prove this conjecture. We've been bottlenecked pretty hard on this problem, and spent most of...
