Summary of A Lean Dataset For International Math Olympiad: Small Steps Towards Writing Math Proofs For Hard Problems, by Roozbeh Yousefzadeh and Xuenan Cao and Azim Ospanov
A Lean Dataset for International Math Olympiad: Small Steps towards Writing Math Proofs for Hard Problems
by Roozbeh Yousefzadeh, Xuenan Cao, Azim Ospanov
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a significant advancement in using AI to write formal proofs for mathematical problems, focusing on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) challenges. By leveraging the Lean automated theorem prover, researchers develop original and complete formal proofs for 13 IMO problems, expanding the existing public domain by 5,880 lines of Lean code. The paper introduces a novel method to decompose proofs into building blocks, creating a dataset of 1,329 lemmas with over 40k lines of Lean code. This dataset serves as an evaluation benchmark for AI models, allowing researchers to analyze their successes and failures from different perspectives. Furthermore, the authors evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) on this dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper uses artificial intelligence to help write math proofs. Right now, people can’t easily write math problems in a special language that computers can understand. This makes it hard for AI systems like Lean to check if the proof is correct. The authors of this paper want to make it easier for AI to do this by writing formal proofs for many math problems. They used a special method to break down the proofs into smaller pieces and created a big dataset with over 40k lines of code. This will help researchers develop better AI models that can write math proofs on their own. |
