AxQM: A Textbook-Scale Benchmark for Formal Proof Synthesis in a Library of Finite-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics

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Lean 4 benchmark from Nielsen and Chuang

• 1,019 tasks over 479 items (687 extracted, 505 formalized)
• released: statements, library (3,519 declarations on a Mathlib fork), grading scripts
• withheld: solution library (10,560 declarations), against training leakage
• finite-dimensional only deterministic grading
• kernel compiles, no sorry in proof or dependency closure, no new axioms
• pinned Mathlib commit and Lean toolchain proof-length metadata
• 5 buckets by declarations beyond released library: 15.5% very small, 31.8% small, 27.5% moderate, 18.6% large, 6.6% very large
• measures reference-proof length, not difficulty dependency ledger
• median item shares 84% of dependency declarations with another item
• 387/1,019 tasks use another task’s solution
• eval both independent and dependency-order modes
• reuse constrains errors but shared wrong definition still passes downstream kernel is silent on statement faithfulness; audit separately
• conclusion defined as the object, so rfl proves it
• conclusion hidden in hypotheses or quantifier order
• algorithm replaced by assumed action
• faithfulness rests on expert review Verus analogue (inference)
• reject external_body/unverified assumptions, inspect dependency specs

Last edited: 2026-11-04