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AI enhances automatic conversion of math proofs into formal verification language
AIProver: Agentic Auto-Formalization of Mathematical Research via Certificate-Driven Evolving Harness
Abstract: Proof auto-formalization translates natural-language (NL) theorems and proofs into a formal language (FL) such as Lean, enabling mechanical verification. Despite rapid progress, research-level proofs often depend on concepts missing from leading proof assistant libraries (e.g., Lean's Mathlib), and successful compilation does not guarantee that a translation preserves the theorem's meaning or the proof's reasoning. Furthermore, aligned NL-FL training data are scarce, and leading agents often rely on costly frontier models and manually engineered harnesses. To address the above issues, we present AIProver, an agentic framework for autonomous proof auto-formalization and proof synthesis (AFPS) that jointly post-trains a 119B open-weight language model and evolves its agentic, tool-calling harness with HarnessEvolve. Verifiers assess type correctness, proof completeness, and semantic correctness, returning rewards and diagnostic certificates that drive model fine-tuning and alternating reinforcement learning via symbolic feedback and HarnessEvolve, a certificate-driven evolutionary search over the whole harness control flow that re-tailors the harness to the updated model. For research-level training and evaluation, we introduce LoCoBench, 58.9k instances from Mathlib, CSLib, Mizar Math Library, and a bounded-arithmetic textbook, with a 771-instance validation split whose theorem-proof pairs have no public Lean formalization. Against 39 frameworks spanning AFPS agents, frontier LLMs, and coding agents, AIProver lifts pass@4 semantic correctness over its Leanstral-1.5 base from 15.7% to 36.7% and outperforms every other open-weight system and Aristotle. As a Claude Code and Codex skill, it lifts their semantic correctness from 41.9% and 34.1% to 79.8% and 62.4%, respectively. Further, it is also 24% cheaper than Numina-Lean-Agent, pushing the accuracy-cost frontier of research-level AFPS.
Feature importance method accounts for feature dependencies and improves reliability
MCIR: A Feature Dependence-Aware Explainability Method with Reliability Guarantees
Abstract: Modern machine-learning models often contain strongly dependent or redundant features, making feature attribution difficult because shared predictive information can be distributed across correlated predictors. Existing methods such as SHAP, LIME, HSIC, MI/CMI, and SAGE may therefore produce unstable rankings under multicollinearity or near-duplicate predictors. We propose the Mutual Correlation Impact Ratio Method (MCIR-M), a dependence-aware global feature-importance approach that quantifies the unique predictive information contributed by each feature beyond a selected dependence neighbourhood. MCIR-M introduces the Mutual Correlation Impact Ratio (MCIR), which conditions each feature on strongly dependent neighbours and computes a normalized ratio of conditional to block-level information. The population score lies in [0,1] and equals zero under exact conditional redundancy. We also introduce a lightweight estimation procedure that computes MCIR using a fraction of the available data and evaluates agreement with full-data explanations. Across controlled synthetic redundancy experiments and the UCI HAR benchmark, MCIR shows dependence-aware ranking behaviour, with its clearest advantage under injected near-duplicate predictors. Comparisons with independent and conditional SHAP, SAGE, HSIC, MI-based scores, and CIR-family baselines are mixed across real-data criteria. Reduced explanation samples lower computational burden in the evaluated configurations, while agreement with full-data explanations is assessed separately through ranking, head-set, and faithfulness diagnostics. Overall, MCIR-M provides a practical dependence-aware diagnostic for global explanation under strong feature dependence.