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The Proof Assistant Stops When Meaning Is Ambiguous
PaperFormalizer builds a statement graph and Lean proof, but asks the author before any repair can alter the paper's claim.
Summary
PaperFormalizer builds a statement graph and Lean proof, but asks the author before any repair can alter the paper's claim.
PaperFormalizer starts from a paper's LaTeX, extracts a dependency graph of statements, audits them in natural language and formalizes them in Lean against Mathlib and optional domain libraries. Its central boundary is editorial: when a sentence admits multiple readings or a repair could change the claim, the pipeline stops and presents the author with a proposal to accept, reject or redirect. The output links each Lean declaration to the statement it formalizes and can grow a reusable author toolkit. The released system runs inside coding agents, but the paper describes a workflow and aspiration rather than a measured guarantee that arbitrary mathematics can be formalized automatically or that author-approved repairs are correct.
Why it matters
PaperFormalizer builds a statement graph and Lean proof, but asks the author before any repair can alter the paper's claim.
Limits and context
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Key claims
PaperFormalizer builds a statement graph and Lean proof, but asks the author before any repair can alter the paper's claim.
Evidence: source-2026-10-26-004
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2610.31810, original v1arXiv · primary research
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