arXiv Machine Learning

Beyond Solver Verdicts: Generative Reward Models for Autoformalization

The paper identifies a new failure mode in neurosymbolic systems called Verdict‑Preserving‑Unfaithfulness (VPU), where incorrect formal encodings can still pass solver checks. It introduces Generative Verification (GenV), a method that uses a language model to produce a continuous reference‑equivalence score without relying on explicit localization. Experiments show GenV+HN achieves high AUROC, generalizes to unseen translators, and improves downstream agent performance by 11.3 points.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

Neuro-symbolic PRM: Enhancing Scientific Reasoning via Structured Traces and Symbolic Verification

The paper introduces a neuro‑symbolic framework for scientific reasoning that separates symbolic validity and semantic groundedness. A deterministic symbolic verifier acts as a hard filter to guarantee syntactic and arithmetic correctness, while a Process Reward Model (PRM) is trained on verifier‑accepted steps to assess contextual grounding. The authors propose Counterfactual Symbolic Perturbation (CSP) to generate hard negative examples that pass the verifier but are logically flawed, enabling efficient PRM training and a verifier‑first constrained search at inference.

By Yuxin Zi, Cong Xu, Suparna Bhattacharya, Martin Foltin, Amit Sheth
arXiv AI
Oct 12

SWE-Critix: Post-Training Generalist Verifiers for Assessing Coding-Agent Trajectories

SWE-Critix is a post‑training pipeline that creates generalist verifiers for coding‑agent trajectories. It uses supervised fine‑tuning followed by reinforcement learning to train 30B models on CodeForge‑Preview data, enabling the verifier to predict completion labels and generate natural‑language explanations. The approach raises classification accuracy from 57% to 78% on a held‑out test set.

By Jiajun Hu, Chun Yong Chong
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31

NL2AGBench: Benchmarking LLM Auto-Formalization for AlphaGeometry

NL2AGBench is a benchmark that evaluates how well large language models can translate English geometry problems into the formal language required by AlphaGeometry’s theorem‑proving engine. The study tests ten state‑of‑the‑art LLMs, comparing executable translation accuracy, syntactic correctness, and error types, and finds a large gap between closed‑source and open‑source models. The authors also propose an error taxonomy and test mitigation strategies such as few‑shot prompting, fine‑tuning, and human‑guided hinting, which improve performance across model families.

By Samuel Xiao, Judy Song, Rory Hu, Ziliang Zong
arXiv AI
Sep 1

Stratified Consistency Distillation for Natural Language Formalization

The paper introduces Stratified Consistency Distillation, a fine‑tuning method to improve natural‑language to logical‑formula translations for neurosymbolic reasoning. It generates multiple candidate translations with a large LLM, clusters them by semantic equivalence, and selects pseudo‑labels using entropy‑based strategies—majority voting for low entropy, LLM-as‑Judge for medium entropy, and unification or abstention for high entropy. The selected pseudo‑labels are then used to fine‑tune a smaller model, yielding significant gains in Pass@K and a new Equivalent Logical Similarity metric.

By Zhichao Hou, Ferhat Erata, Joe Lilien, MohamadAli Torkamani