EvolProver: Advancing Automated Theorem Proving by Evolving Formalized Problems via Symmetry and Difficulty

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Autori principali: Tian, Yuchen, Huang, Ruiyuan, Wang, Xuanwu, Ma, Jing, Huang, Zengfeng, Luo, Ziyang, Lin, Hongzhan, Zheng, Da, Du, Lun
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author Tian, Yuchen
Huang, Ruiyuan
Wang, Xuanwu
Ma, Jing
Huang, Zengfeng
Luo, Ziyang
Lin, Hongzhan
Zheng, Da
Du, Lun
author_facet Tian, Yuchen
Huang, Ruiyuan
Wang, Xuanwu
Ma, Jing
Huang, Zengfeng
Luo, Ziyang
Lin, Hongzhan
Zheng, Da
Du, Lun
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) for formal theorem proving have shown significant promise, yet they often lack generalizability and are fragile to even minor transformations of problem statements. To address this limitation, we introduce a novel data augmentation pipeline designed to enhance model robustness from two perspectives: symmetry and difficulty. From the symmetry perspective, we propose two complementary methods: EvolAST, an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) based approach that targets syntactic symmetry to generate semantically equivalent problem variants, and EvolDomain, which leverages LLMs to address semantic symmetry by translating theorems across mathematical domains. From the difficulty perspective, we propose EvolDifficulty, which uses carefully designed evolutionary instructions to guide LLMs in generating new theorems with a wider range of difficulty. We then use the evolved data to train EvolProver, a 7B-parameter non-reasoning theorem prover. EvolProver establishes a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) on FormalMATH-Lite with a 53.8% pass@32 rate, surpassing all models of comparable size, including reasoning-based models. It also sets new SOTA records for non-reasoning models on MiniF2F-Test (69.8% pass@32), Ineq-Comp-Seed (52.2% pass@32), and Ineq-Comp-Transformed (34.0% pass@32). Ablation studies further confirm our data augmentation pipeline's effectiveness across multiple benchmarks.
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spellingShingle EvolProver: Advancing Automated Theorem Proving by Evolving Formalized Problems via Symmetry and Difficulty
Tian, Yuchen
Huang, Ruiyuan
Wang, Xuanwu
Ma, Jing
Huang, Zengfeng
Luo, Ziyang
Lin, Hongzhan
Zheng, Da
Du, Lun
Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models (LLMs) for formal theorem proving have shown significant promise, yet they often lack generalizability and are fragile to even minor transformations of problem statements. To address this limitation, we introduce a novel data augmentation pipeline designed to enhance model robustness from two perspectives: symmetry and difficulty. From the symmetry perspective, we propose two complementary methods: EvolAST, an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) based approach that targets syntactic symmetry to generate semantically equivalent problem variants, and EvolDomain, which leverages LLMs to address semantic symmetry by translating theorems across mathematical domains. From the difficulty perspective, we propose EvolDifficulty, which uses carefully designed evolutionary instructions to guide LLMs in generating new theorems with a wider range of difficulty. We then use the evolved data to train EvolProver, a 7B-parameter non-reasoning theorem prover. EvolProver establishes a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) on FormalMATH-Lite with a 53.8% pass@32 rate, surpassing all models of comparable size, including reasoning-based models. It also sets new SOTA records for non-reasoning models on MiniF2F-Test (69.8% pass@32), Ineq-Comp-Seed (52.2% pass@32), and Ineq-Comp-Transformed (34.0% pass@32). Ablation studies further confirm our data augmentation pipeline's effectiveness across multiple benchmarks.
title EvolProver: Advancing Automated Theorem Proving by Evolving Formalized Problems via Symmetry and Difficulty
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00732