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FormalRewardBench benchmark evaluates LLM reward models for theorem proving

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Researchers have introduced FormalRewardBench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate reward models used in formal theorem proving. This benchmark addresses the challenge of sparse credit assignment in reinforcement learning for theorem provers by enabling the comparison of reward models without extensive retraining. FormalRewardBench includes 250 preference pairs with various error injection strategies and has been used to test several large language models, revealing that frontier models perform best in evaluating proof quality. AI

IMPACT This benchmark aims to improve reward models for AI theorem provers, potentially leading to more capable AI systems in formal mathematics and complex reasoning tasks.

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FormalRewardBench benchmark evaluates LLM reward models for theorem proving

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Gözde Gül Şahin ·

    FormalRewardBench: A Benchmark for Formal Theorem Proving Reward Models

    Recent neural theorem provers use reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), where proof assistants provide binary correctness signals. While verifiable rewards are cheap and scalable without reward hacking issues, they suffer from sparse credit assignment: models rec…

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