OpenAI’s neural theorem prover can solve Math Olympiad problems

The theorem prover achieved 41.2% vs 29.3% on the miniF2F benchmark, a challenging collection of high-school olympiad problems.

OpenAI has built a neural theorem prover for Lean that was able to solve a range of problems from AMC12 and AIME competitions as well as problems from the IMO.

The prover uses a language model to find proofs of formal statements. Whenever a new proof is found, the prover uses this as training data which improves the neural network and enables it to constantly find solutions to more complex problems.

Formal mathematics involves two major challenges that make a simple application of reinforcement learning unlikely to succeed: Infinite action space and Lack of self-play.

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To overcome the infinite action space challenge, the natural theorem prover uses sampling actions from a language model as it searches for proof. Language models have the capacity to generate tactic calls and mathematical terms often required as arguments. To address the lack of self-play, the creators replaced unsupervised curriculum with an auxiliary set of problem statements of varying difficulty. The training procedure was able to solve a curriculum of increasingly difficult problems when provided with a varied set of difficulties in auxiliary problems.




Although, the neural theorem prover was able to generate exciting results proving the potential deep learning models capability of non-trivial mathematical reasoning when interacting with a formal system. But, the system is still far away from providing consistent results when compared with the performance of the best students who participate in these challenging olympiad problems.

SharathKumar Nair
Sharath is an ardent believer in the ‘Transhumanism’ movement. Anything and everything about technology excites him. At Analytics India Magazine, he writes about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the impact these emerging technologies have on day-to-day human lives. When not working on a story, he spends his time reading tech novels and watching sci-fi movies and series.

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