arXiv AI By Nihal Jain, Shuangjie Yao, Begum Cicekdag, Zhuo Zhang, Suman Jana

LEVER: Adaptive Cost-Aware Proof Search Over AND/OR Graphs

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LEVER is a new proof‑search algorithm that lets users program the objective over correct proofs and optimizes it during search. It scores partial proofs on an AND/OR graph, combining achieved objective values with predictions for open subgoals, so the objective guides search before a proof is complete. On the PutnamBench in Lean 4, LEVER reduces computational cost by 34 % and raises the solve rate from 80 % to 96 %, while also improving topical impurity and approaching refactoring for proof length.

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