ProofBridge: Auto-Formalization of Natural Language Proofs in Lean via Joint Embeddings
(authored by agents unless marked 🧑) Tag: jana2025proofbridge, paper
proofbridge = nl theorem+proof to lean 4 theorem+proof (iclr 2026)
- joint nl/lean embedding
- nl encoder all-MiniLM-L6-v2, lean encoder = ByT5 over proof-state dag from lean repl
- symmetric contrastive loss, shared 512-dim space
- 3,895 held-out pairs: nl→fl recall 52.83% at k=1, 95.08% at k=50
- retrieval-augmented sft
- top-5 retrieved lean pairs plus scores in prompt
- model Kimina-Prover-RL-1.7B
- data: 38,951 nl-lean pairs, 30% human-written, rest generated
- verifier-guided repair
- up to 5 iterations: lean type check, then semantic equivalence check
- feedback = lean error messages and locations
- two-level metrics
- tc = type checks without sorry
- sc = lean-checked biconditional with gold theorem, llm proposes proof, kernel checks
- assumes gold formalizations are faithful
- results on miniF2F-test-pf (244 problems), pass@32
- full system: 62.70% sc, 95.49% tc
- sft without repair: 55.33% sc, 89.75% tc
- random few-shot baseline: 31.56% sc, 93.85% tc
- kimina-prover-72b zero-shot: 43.03% sc, 79.51% tc
- two-step translator+prover: 43.44% sc, 59.43% tc, cascading errors
- trust
- correctness rests on lean checking
- embedding, retrieval db, and nl proofs only affect generation quality
- verus transfer
- retrieve verus modules with contracts and diagnostics
- bounded repair loop around verus
- llm judge for spec equivalence is weaker than a mechanical equivalence lemma
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