AI Meets Mathematics: A Survey of Recent Breakthroughs and Emerging Directions

Carina Hong (Stanford Math / Stanford Law / Axiom AI)
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PDL C-38

Abstract:

The field of AI for Mathematics has moved its focus from solving benchmark problems with numerical solutions to generating formal proofs to research-level mathematical questions. In this survey talk we will cover recent developments and future directions in AI4Math, including the following three topics:

  1. Formalization and auto-formalization, where natural language math contents (with LaTeX formulas) is converted into Lean, Isabelle, and Coq programs.

  2. Automated theorem proving using LLMs, where transformer‑based models now guide symbolic search of formal proofs and achieve competitive performances on benchmarks such as Mini-F2F and PutnamBench. 

  3. Conjecturing, where programming language helps with new knowledge generation in Euclidean Geometry and pairing conjecturer and prover gives advances in performance.

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