Evaluation Protocol
This artifact is intended to support reproducible evaluation of proof-generation systems on LeanCat.
Environment
- Lean toolchain:
leanprover/lean4:v4.19.0 - Mathlib dependency:
v4.19.0, pinned throughlakefile.leanandlake-manifest.json - Build command:
lake build
Reviewers and users should run all checks from the repository root.
Task Definition
Each task is a Lean file in CAT_statement/S_XXXX.lean paired with a
natural-language statement in problems/XXXX.md and metadata in
metadata.json.
A task is solved when a system replaces the target sorry placeholder or
placeholders with Lean code and the resulting file is accepted by Lean under the
pinned environment.
Valid Proof Criteria
A submitted proof is valid only if all of the following hold:
- The corresponding Lean file compiles with Lean 4.19.0 and Mathlib v4.19.0.
- The theorem statement, local definitions, imports, namespaces, universes, and assumptions are not changed in a way that weakens or changes the intended task.
- The file contains no
sorry,admit,axiom, orunsafeadditions used to bypass proof obligations. - No new external dependencies are introduced unless the evaluation setting explicitly permits them.
- The proof preserves the intended mathematical meaning of the task.
Compilation alone is not sufficient if a system changes the target statement or shadows key definitions to make a different theorem easier.
Recommended Reporting
Report results as raw counts and percentages over the 100 tasks. For small splits, report raw counts prominently because one solved High-difficulty task is 2.5 percentage points.
For pass@k settings, a task is counted as solved if at least one of the k independent attempts satisfies the valid proof criteria.
For interactive or retrieval-augmented settings, report:
- input form: formal statement only, natural language only, or both;
- retrieval access and corpus;
- maximum refinement iterations;
- generation budget;
- verification timeout;
- total wall-clock or service budget when available.
The paper experiments use a 300-second verification timeout per attempt unless otherwise stated.
Evaluation Drivers
This artifact includes two lightweight drivers. Both read the paired
problems/XXXX.md and CAT_statement/S_XXXX.lean files, call an
OpenAI-compatible chat-completions endpoint, extract Lean code from the response,
and check the candidate with lake env lean.
Configure the API with environment variables or command-line flags:
Windows PowerShell:
$env:OPENAI_API_KEY="your_key"
$env:OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://api.openai.com/v1"
Linux/macOS:
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_key"
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://api.openai.com/v1"
Static pass@k:
python scripts/passk.py --start 1 --end 100 --model gpt-5.2 -k 4
LeanBridge-style generate-verify-refine:
python scripts/leanbridge.py --start 1 --end 100 --model gpt-5.2 --max-iterations 4
By default, leanbridge.py uses the local LeanExplore backend:
pip install lean-explore[local]
lean-explore data fetch
python scripts/leanbridge.py --start 1 --end 100 --model gpt-5.2 --search-backend local
The hosted LeanExplore API can be selected with --search-backend api, but the
local backend is recommended when the hosted API is unavailable. To run the
verify-refine loop without retrieval, use --search-backend none. For custom
retrievers, use --search-backend command --search-command "python path/to/search.py";
the command receives a query on stdin and writes retrieved Mathlib context to
stdout.
For local LeanExplore, the service is created once per Python process and reused
for all queries to avoid repeatedly loading the local indices and models. The
script prints progress logs with a [LeanCat] prefix, including search, LLM, and
Lean verification stages. The logs do not print API keys.
Outputs are written under results/ by default. Use --resume to skip existing
result files.
Dataset Integrity Check
Run:
python scripts/validate_dataset.py
This checks the expected file counts, metadata consistency, import coverage, basic statement shape, and absence of root-level PDF files in the anonymized artifact.