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Lean Atlas: An Integrated Proof Environment for Scalable Human-AI Collaborative Formalization

arXiv 2604.16347 ↗First posted 16 Mar 2026cs.HC cs.AI cs.LOcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

AI-driven autoformalization of mathematics is advancing rapidly. However, the type checker of a proof assistant guarantees only the logical correctness of proofs; it does not verify whether propositions and definitions faithfully capture their intended mathematical content. Consequently, AI-generated formal proofs can exhibit semantic hallucination-passing the type checker yet failing to express the intended mathematics. We propose a human-in-the-loop approach in which human scientists and AI collaboratively produce formal proofs, with humans responsible for the semantic verification of propositions and definitions. To realize this approach, we develop Lean Atlas, a Lean 4 tool that visualizes the dependency graph of a Lean 4 project as an interactive web viewer, enabling human scientists to grasp the overall structure of a formalization efficiently. Its core feature, Lean Compass, is an algorithm that, given a selected theorem set, automatically extracts the project-specific nodes whose semantic correctness can affect those target statements, thereby reducing the candidate set for semantic review in large-scale formalizations. We further define *aligned Lean code* as formalization code that has undergone human semantic verification, and propose it as a quality standard for AI-generated formalizations. We evaluate the tool on six Lean 4 formalization projects with different structural characteristics; proof-heavy projects (PrimeNumberTheoremAnd, Carleson, Brownian Motion) achieved 94-99% average node reduction, a 6-theorem milestone subset of FLT achieved 59.8%, mixed PhysLib 69.0%, and definition-heavy XMSS 27.3%. Lean Atlas is available as open-source software at https://github.com/NyxFoundation/lean-atlas .

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  1. 2023LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Modelscited by 414
  2. 2025DeepSeek-Prover-V2: Advancing Formal Mathematical Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Subgoal Decompositioncited by 270
  3. 2022Autoformalization with Large Language Modelscited by 252
  4. 2025Kimina-Prover Preview: Towards Large Formal Reasoning Models with Reinforcement Learningcited by 173
  5. 2024Formal Mathematical Reasoning: A New Frontier in AIcited by 80
  6. 2025Hilbert: Recursively Building Formal Proofs with Informal Reasoningcited by 55
  7. 2024Lean Copilot: Large Language Models as Copilots for Theorem Proving in Leancited by 52
  8. 2024miniCTX: Neural Theorem Proving with (Long-)Contextscited by 35
  9. 2025Prover Agent: An Agent-Based Framework for Formal Mathematical Proofscited by 28
  10. 2024Reliable Evaluation and Benchmarks for Statement Autoformalizationcited by 25
  11. 2024FormalAlign: Automated Alignment Evaluation for Autoformalizationcited by 19
  12. 2024HepLean: Digitalising high energy physicscited by 10
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  1. 2026Formalizing the stability of the two Higgs doublet model potential into Lean: identifying an error in the literaturecited by 4

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