What happened?
InternLM2.5-StepProver reported 65.9% on miniF2F-test and proved or disproved 17.0% of Lean-Workbook-Plus problems.
Why it matters
It provided an open empirical example of theorem-proving performance scaling with data, search and compute.
Significance rationale: StepProver showed how large problem banks and compute-intensive expert iteration can steadily raise open formal theorem-proving performance.
Evidence & status at a glance
- Significance
- H2 · Field milestone
- Verification
- Paper released
- Evidence level
- E3 · Inspectable artifact
- AI role
- AI primary, human verified
- Formal assurance
- Machine-checked
How should these labels be read? →
Contribution & verification
- Mathematical novelty
- Benchmark result
- Interface
- Formal, Symbolic
- AI contribution
- The prover searches for Lean proofs, trains on successful outputs and uses a learned critic to allocate effort.
- Human contribution
- Researchers built the large-scale expert-iteration pipeline and curated Lean datasets.
- Verification
- Paper released · E3 · Inspectable artifact · Machine-checked
- Last reviewed
- 2026-09-11
Technical details
- Systems
- internlm2.5-stepprover, lean
- Organizations
- shanghai-ai-laboratory
- Problems
- minif2f, lean-workbook-plus, putnambench
- Methods
- expert-iteration, critic-model, proof-search
Verification history
- 2024-10-21 · Paper released · E2 · Research record
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- 2026-09-11 · Paper released · E3 · Inspectable artifact
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Corrections
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