FormalEvolve is a neuro‑symbolic evolutionary search framework that treats autoformalization as a budgeted test‑time search problem. It builds a compilation‑feasible archive of formal statements and expands it using LLM‑driven mutation, crossover, bounded patch repair, and symbolic AST rewrites to generate diverse, semantically accepted formalizations. In experiments on CombiBench and ProofNet, FormalEvolve achieves higher SH@100 scores and improves theorem‑complete proving under fixed prover budgets compared to no‑archive baselines.
By Haijian Lu, Wei Wang, Jing Liu
arXiv:2606. 12594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Lean theorem provers achieve strong performance only with substantial training and inference compute, driven in part by scarce verified proof data and the long reasoning traces of formal proof search, making both supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and sampling expensive.
By Joshua Ong Jun Leang, Zheng Zhao, Mihaela C\u{a}t\u{a}lina Stoian, Qiyuan Xu, Haonan Li, Wenda Li, Shay B. Cohen, Eleonora Giunchiglia
arXiv:2606. 08728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mathematical reasoning has long served as a stringent test of machine intelligence; over the past decade, it has moved from a niche problem within NLP to one of the most consequential AI frontiers.
By Syed Rifat Raiyan, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud, Md Kamrul Hasan
arXiv:2509. 14274v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant promise in formal theorem proving.
By Kazumi Kasaura, Naoto Onda, Yuta Oriike, Masaya Taniguchi, Akiyoshi Sannai, Sho Sonoda
arXiv:2607. 11307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-proof autoformalization bridges extensive mathematical proofs in natural language with formally validated reasoning, offering a pathway to elevate the ceiling of verifiable mathematical reasoning.
By Tian-Shuo Liu, Shiyuan Zhang, Zijie Geng, Haoyu Liu, Runjie Xu, Pengyuan Wang, Lei Yuan, Yang Yu
The paper introduces GUARD, a neuro‑symbolic system that autoformalizes argumentative material by completing missing premises (guards) before formal verification. It uses large language models to generate candidate guards, Isabelle/HOL to verify them, and a contrastive test to ensure the proof depends on the original premises and does not over‑generalize. Experiments on Debatepedia and ARCT show that GUARD improves verified‑faithful scores by over 30 points and reduces leakage by about 20 points compared to prior LLM‑driven theorem proving methods.
By Xin Quan, Reto Gubelmann, Andr\'e Freitas
arXiv:2505. 18492v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mathematical competition problems fall into two broad types: theorem proving, which asks for a proof of a given statement, and answer construction, which requires constructing a property-satifying object with proofs.
By Jialiang Sun, Yuzhi Tang, Ao Li, Chris J. Maddison, Kuldeep S. Meel
arXiv:2606. 15258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of mathematical problem solving and can even assist with research-level proofs, yet we still lack a scalable and reproducible way to measure step-level reasoning in long proofs across diverse sources.
By Jierui Zhang, Siyuan Tan, Xinhang Li, Longzhuangzhi Lin, Dailin Li, Chengfeng Gu, Xinping Li, Yaxian Hao, Shengjia Liang, Yuxiang Ren, Wenhao Liu
RePro is a framework that rewrites benchmark problems for large language models (LLMs) in mathematical problem solving, ensuring that the rewritten problems and their answers are valid and correct through Lean-verified proofs. It integrates Lean-oriented neural automated theorem provers (ATPs) to regenerate answers, achieving 100% well-definedness, feasibility, and answer correctness on GSM8K and MATH datasets. Experiments show that models’ performance drops on these proof‑verified rewritten benchmarks, indicating sensitivity to surface‑level and structural variations and potential memorization effects.
By Xiyuan Zhou, Zhuoqi Li, Xinlei Wang, Yirui He, Yuhao Wu, Yuheng Cheng, Yan Xu, Junhua Zhao, Jinjin Gu
arXiv:2606. 20068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) typically has relied on a single binary verification signal, symbolic proof assistants in formal reasoning offer rich, fine-grained structured feedback.
By Minsu Kim, Se-Young Yun
HybridProver is a unified framework that combines whole-proof synthesis and tactic-based generation using proof sketches as an intermediate representation. Implemented in Isabelle/HOL, it employs two 7B-scale LLMs trained on optimized Isabelle datasets. On the miniF2F Isabelle benchmark, HybridProver achieved a 73.8% success rate, surpassing the previous state of the art of 61.9%, and ablation studies examined the effects of dataset quality, training settings, and sampling strategies.
By Jilin Hu, Jianyu Zhang, Yongwang Zhao, Talia Ringer
arXiv:2608.28639v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Formal theorem proving with large language models remains challenging due to the difficulty of navigating large proof search spaces efficiently. Existi...
By Bodla Krishna Vamshi, Haizhao Yang