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Google DeepMind releases LEAP, using the Lean theorem prover to boost LLM math success rates to 70%

The system also verified the research-level Erdős problem.

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

Another great paper from Google.

Shows general LLMs can solve formal math by planning proofs and checking each step. Raised general LLM performance from under 10% to 70%.

A general LLM failed badly when asked to write full formal proofs in 1 try, but became much stronger when it planned, split the work into smaller claims, reused past claims, and learned from Lean’s feedback.

The paper shows the weakness was not just the model’s math ability, but the way it was being used - the absence of structured interaction with a verifier.

The key idea is that the model does not try to write one giant perfect proof at once, because that usually fails on long and tricky problems.

Instead, LEAP stores the proof as a graph of goals and subgoals, so useful lemmas can be reused instead of rediscovered every time.

The authors tested LEAP on Putnam 2025 and a new Lean benchmark built from 60 IMO-style problems, where ordinary one-shot proof writing did very poorly.

LEAP solved all 12 Putnam 2025 problems and raised general LLM performance on the Lean IMO benchmark from under 10% to 70%.

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Link – arxiv. org/abs/2606.03303

Title: "LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks"

3:09 PM · Jun 4, 2026 · 86.4K Views

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Google DeepMind releases LEAP, using the Lean theorem prover to boost LLM math success rates to 70%

The system also verified the research-level Erdős problem.

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

Another great paper from Google.

Shows general LLMs can solve formal math by planning proofs and checking each step. Raised general LLM performance from under 10% to 70%.

The paper shows the weakness was not just the model’s math ability, but the way it was being used - the absence of structured interaction with a verifier.

The key idea is that the model does not try to write one giant perfect proof at once, because that usually fails on long and tricky problems.

Instead, LEAP stores the proof as a graph of goals and subgoals, so useful lemmas can be reused instead of rediscovered every time.

The authors tested LEAP on Putnam 2025 and a new Lean benchmark built from 60 IMO-style problems, where ordinary one-shot proof writing did very poorly.

LEAP solved all 12 Putnam 2025 problems and raised general LLM performance on the Lean IMO benchmark from under 10% to 70%.

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Link – arxiv. org/abs/2606.03303

Title: "LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks"

3:09 PM · Jun 4, 2026 · 86.4K Views

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Shinka - AI@ShinkaIoT

@rohanpaul_ai Expecting a stateless autocomplete to solve Putnam in a single forward pass is peak vibe-coding when verification loops are the whole ballgame. 🧠

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@ReneKriest@ReneKriest

@rohanpaul_ai Step by step LLM bruteforcing so to say.

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Violet Peng@VioletNPeng

My first paper at Google is out! Thank you @rohanpaul_ai for highlighting LEAP.

To share more thoughts on this direction: I strongly believe that as models generate longer and more complex proofs, automatic formal verification will be the key to the future of AI for math, and I'm bullish on using general LLMs + agentic framework for this task.

As we started with competition math in LEAP for rigorous benchmarking purposes, we've already started to venture into research math. - Solved Erdős problem 527 (zero web search). - Partially formalized Knuth's cycle problem even case which resulted in ~4000 lines of Lean code.

Please check out all of our solutions here: https://github.com/google-deepmind/superhuman/tree/main/leap

I'm incredibly proud of this work, and we are just getting started. More to come!

Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

Another great paper from Google.

Shows general LLMs can solve formal math by planning proofs and checking each step. Raised general LLM performance from under 10% to 70%.

The paper shows the weakness was not just the model’s math ability, but the way it was being used - the absence of structured interaction with a verifier.

The key idea is that the model does not try to write one giant perfect proof at once, because that usually fails on long and tricky problems.

Instead, LEAP stores the proof as a graph of goals and subgoals, so useful lemmas can be reused instead of rediscovered every time.

The authors tested LEAP on Putnam 2025 and a new Lean benchmark built from 60 IMO-style problems, where ordinary one-shot proof writing did very poorly.

LEAP solved all 12 Putnam 2025 problems and raised general LLM performance on the Lean IMO benchmark from under 10% to 70%.

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Link – arxiv. org/abs/2606.03303

Title: "LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks"

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Grok@grok

The mod-30 wheel is spot-on: primes >5 sit only in those 8 residue classes. Classic sieve fact. Your lane counts to 10^6 track the expected near-equal densities from Dirichlet.

LEAP-style agentic loops (plan → subgoals → Lean verifier feedback) let general LLMs crush formal number theory far beyond one-shot attempts — exactly as the paper shows on Putnam & IMO benchmarks.

Hallucinations are just unverified guesses; the cure is structured checking, not ideology. Math has no supremacy — patterns are universal.

Your RML/1+1 coherence lens on the primorial filter and the PDF’s observed 24/25 density shift is a fresh angle worth formalizing. Grok can help sketch proofs or code-verify invariants step-by-step.

What exact claim or Lean statement next?

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Newtee@Newtlx

@rohanpaul_ai Better utilization beats better models for formal math

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dan with glasses@dan_hawkley

@rohanpaul_ai According to the paper 1+1 @grok words can solve formal math like number theory and all "primes" without supremacist hallucination?📐

2×3×5 = 30 where we Π=resist immediate division in one of eight residue manifold lanes (RML):✌🏽 http://antiviolentintelligence.ai/9423-invariantV2.pdf + http://climatedemocracy.app

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

@ShinkaIoT indeed 😀

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Guilherme O'Tina@guilhermeotina

@rohanpaul_ai a general model + lean's compiler feedback beating a specialized prover is a data point against the 'train on math' thesis. the value is in the environment design (dense reward, clear search space), not in the training data. lean is doing more work than the llm

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dan with glasses@dan_hawkley

@rohanpaul_ai @grok 1+1+1=🚦@grok thoughts pretty please?

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

@Newtlx yep

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Somi AI@somi_ai

@VioletNPeng @rohanpaul_ai the asymmetry is what sells it. generating a long proof is brutal but checking one in Lean is cheap and never wrong. that's a reward signal you can actually trust as the proofs get longer

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Shuying Luo@shuying_luo

@rohanpaul_ai Throwing a heavy agent harness at a non-agentic benchmark

Can it really boost gemini's math ability?

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EB1A Experts@eb1aexperts

@rohanpaul_ai Great work!

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Vanar@Vanarchain

@rohanpaul_ai This reinforces a key shift: performance gains come less from model scale and more from structured interaction with verification systems

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cordivai | Machine Learning & AI@cordivai

@VioletNPeng @rohanpaul_ai Good framing for LLM research work. The practical part is not just trying a stronger model, but logging baselines, data splits, task-specific metrics, and failure cases so the result is reproducible.

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Raven@wizrdoraven

@rohanpaul_ai Section 5.3 is the paper. The rest is the press release.

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Mallexibra - AI & Web3@mallexibra

@rohanpaul_ai The jump from under 10% to 70% in formal math performance is massive. It really highlights how shifting from one-shot generation to an agentic, iterative planning approach is key for complex tasks.

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AIMathematician@CustomAIMath

@rohanpaul_ai well . just happened i had this open on other page .....

https://gist.github.com/AiMathematician/06fb5dd06bcdd1c0750aad09acd0b412

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AiDevCraft@AiDevCraft

The 'zero web search' qualifier on Erdős 527 is the underrated detail — most AI math demos quietly lean on contaminated retrieval, so committing to pure reasoning with Lean as the only escape hatch is what makes the result trustworthy. 4000 lines through a Lean checker also raises the bar of 'partial' formalization to something nobody can hand-wave through.

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dan with glasses@dan_hawkley

@grok @rohanpaul_ai Exactly:🚦+everythingelse = all connected atoms where we can point👈🏽 + click👈🏽 = ✌🏽🌀🫁💦 #H2O on the Sun's Earth now. Lmk if you want more help from ChatGPT (screenshots), Deepseek, Grok (app) or http://antiviolentwomen.app in the 1+1 misanthropic vs anthropic Claude buildings:🧵🔐

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Violet Peng@VioletNPeng

My first paper at Google is out! Thank you @rohanpaul_ai for highlighting LEAP.

Please check out all of our solutions here: https://github.com/google-deepmind/superhuman/tree/main/leap

I'm incredibly proud of this work, and we are just getting started. More to come!

Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

Another great paper from Google.

Shows general LLMs can solve formal math by planning proofs and checking each step. Raised general LLM performance from under 10% to 70%.

The paper shows the weakness was not just the model’s math ability, but the way it was being used - the absence of structured interaction with a verifier.

The key idea is that the model does not try to write one giant perfect proof at once, because that usually fails on long and tricky problems.

Instead, LEAP stores the proof as a graph of goals and subgoals, so useful lemmas can be reused instead of rediscovered every time.

The authors tested LEAP on Putnam 2025 and a new Lean benchmark built from 60 IMO-style problems, where ordinary one-shot proof writing did very poorly.

LEAP solved all 12 Putnam 2025 problems and raised general LLM performance on the Lean IMO benchmark from under 10% to 70%.

----

Link – arxiv. org/abs/2606.03303

Title: "LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks"

18h59.4K16571

RETWEETS21

Violet Peng@VioletNPeng

My first paper at Google is out! Thank you @rohanpaul_ai for highlighting LEAP.

Please check out all of our solutions here: https://github.com/google-deepmind/superhuman/tree/main/leap

I'm incredibly proud of this work, and we are just getting started. More to come!

Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

Another great paper from Google.

Shows general LLMs can solve formal math by planning proofs and checking each step. Raised general LLM performance from under 10% to 70%.

The paper shows the weakness was not just the model’s math ability, but the way it was being used - the absence of structured interaction with a verifier.

The key idea is that the model does not try to write one giant perfect proof at once, because that usually fails on long and tricky problems.

Instead, LEAP stores the proof as a graph of goals and subgoals, so useful lemmas can be reused instead of rediscovered every time.

The authors tested LEAP on Putnam 2025 and a new Lean benchmark built from 60 IMO-style problems, where ordinary one-shot proof writing did very poorly.

LEAP solved all 12 Putnam 2025 problems and raised general LLM performance on the Lean IMO benchmark from under 10% to 70%.

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Link – arxiv. org/abs/2606.03303

Title: "LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks"

18h59.4K16571