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December 3, 2025
DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs
AlphaProof can handle math challenges but needs a bit of help right now.
TL;DR
- AlphaProof, an AI developed by DeepMind, achieved a silver medal performance at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad.
- The AI was trained using the Lean formal verification system to ensure logical accuracy in mathematical proofs.
- A key innovation was using a large language model to translate natural language math statements into the formal Lean language.
- AlphaProof employed a learning approach similar to AlphaZero, using a neural network and tree search, enhanced by Test-Time Reinforcement Learning (TTRL) for difficult problems.
- The AI's performance required significant computational resources and human intervention for problem compatibility and specific areas like geometry (assisted by AlphaGeometry 2).
- DeepMind aims to optimize AlphaProof to reduce resource consumption and contribute to research-level mathematics.
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