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Re:AI solves IMO problems at silver medal level by summerlight on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:58PM (#41072713)
> A small detail wasn't clear to me: for these incorrectly formalized problems, how do they get the correct answer as ground truth for training? Have a human to manually solve them?

Formal proofs can be mechanically checked if it's correct or not. We just don't know what's the answer. Think it as an extremely rigorous type system that typically requires really long type annotations, like annotation itself is a complex program. So if AlphaProof happens to generate a proof that passes this checker, we know that it's correct.

Re:AI solves IMO problems at silver medal level by thrdbndndn on Thursday July 25, 2024 @10:58PM (#41075465)
Ah, thanks. That makes a lot of sense now.
Re:AI solves IMO problems at silver medal level by thomasahle on Friday July 26, 2024 @04:55AM (#41076962)
One more trick: They look for both proofs and disproofs. So even if they failed the formalization and created a "wrong" theorem, it's just another task.