AICLOct 1, 2025

Aristotle: IMO-level Automated Theorem Proving

arXiv:2510.01346v239 citationsh-index: 8
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This addresses the challenge of high-level mathematical reasoning for automated theorem proving, representing a strong specific gain rather than a broad SOTA breakthrough.

The paper tackled the problem of automated theorem proving at the International Mathematical Olympiad level by introducing Aristotle, an AI system that achieved gold-medal-equivalent performance on the 2025 IMO problems.

We introduce Aristotle, an AI system that combines formal verification with informal reasoning, achieving gold-medal-equivalent performance on the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad problems. Aristotle integrates three main components: a Lean proof search system, an informal reasoning system that generates and formalizes lemmas, and a dedicated geometry solver. Our system demonstrates state-of-the-art performance with favorable scaling properties for automated theorem proving.

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