Automated Formal Proofs of Combinatorial Identities via Wilf–Zeilberger Guidance and LLMs
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wz-llm: symbolic decomposer turns identities into lean 4 proof sketches, llm prover discharges the sub-goals
- evaluated on LCI-Test (100 identities), CombiBench, PutnamBench-Comb
- LCI-Test end-to-end 34/100 at pass@32
- direct prover route 12/100, sketch route 29/100, routes accounted separately
- kernel verification (lean 4.25.0) is the sole correctness criterion
- trusted: lean kernel, sagemath certificate synthesis, scripts; statement adequacy not proved certificate-guided decomposition
- wz certificate R(n,k) makes the summand telescope
- sketch holds recurrence, boundary, normalization, non-vanishing obligations
- queue with visited set, prover per obligation, assemble only lean-verified fragments, any failure gives FAIL
- inapplicable goals fall back to direct proving
- 864/1178 sketch lemma subgoals verified (73.34%)
- symbolic decomposition alone does not give end-to-end success without a reliable lemma prover verifier-filtered expert iteration
- seed: 307 identities, 1200 lemma proofs; 2 rounds
- final 418 identities, 6871 lemmas
- keep only pairs passing lean, dedupe, retrain sft
- LCI-Test pass@1/8/32
- seed sft 1/3/9
- expert iteration 3/6/10
- dapo 4/6/12 difficulty-smoothed dapo
- estimate pass rates by rollouts, downsample easy clusters, drop near-zero-pass goals inference for verus
- compile gate as acceptance predicate for generated lemmas
- cas certificates stay trusted unless rechecked
- edited specs need review since compiling does not preserve intent
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