QDTSynth: Quality-Driven Formal Theorem Synthesis for Enhancing Proving Performance of LLMs

Automated Theorem Proving is an important and challenging task.Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in mathematical reasoning, their performance in formal theorem proving remains constrained by the scarcity of high-quality supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data.To address this limitation, we propose a Quality-Driven Theorem Synthesis method (QDTSynth) in Lean4.During the statement synthesis, we enhance Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with an adaptive adjustment mechanism that dynamically optimizes the search strategy based on the synthesis of statements.In addition, we propose diversity screening and the selfassessment method to select theorems that exhibit both diversity and high quality from the initially synthetic statements, enabling the synthesis of a high-quality Lean4 theorem dataset.After fine-tuning three open-source large language models on our synthetic dataset, experiments on the miniF2F benchmark demonstrate that QDTSynth significantly improves the performance of various open-source LLMs in theorem proving tasks.Our work offers a promising new direction for the future synthesis of highquality formal mathematical theorems.

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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.714
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Business Process Modeling and Analysis
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QDTSynth: Quality-Driven Formal Theorem Synthesis for Enhancing Proving Performance of LLMs

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QDTSynth: Quality-Driven Formal Theorem Synthesis for Enhancing Proving Performance of LLMs

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Abstract

Automated Theorem Proving is an important and challenging task.Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in mathematical reasoning, their performance in formal theorem proving remains constrained by the scarcity of high-quality supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data.To address this limitation, we propose a Quality-Driven Theorem Synthesis method (QDTSynth) in Lean4.During the statement synthesis, we enhance Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with an adaptive adjustment mechanism that dynamically optimizes the search strategy based on the synthesis of statements.In addition, we propose diversity screening and the selfassessment method to select theorems that exhibit both diversity and high quality from the initially synthetic statements, enabling the synthesis of a high-quality Lean4 theorem dataset.After fine-tuning three open-source large language models on our synthetic dataset, experiments on the miniF2F benchmark demonstrate that QDTSynth significantly improves the performance of various open-source LLMs in theorem proving tasks.Our work offers a promising new direction for the future synthesis of highquality formal mathematical theorems.

National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key Research and Development Program of China
Openalex Percentile: Top 67%
Business Process Modeling and Analysis
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