Autoformalization
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes
4 statements about Autoformalization, every show
Hong: Auto-informalizing Lean code into natural language is much easier than auto-formalizing
“Auto-informalization is a lot easier than auto-formalization minus the problem of no grounding, right?”
Auto-formalization is harder than translating between two programming languages
“And auto formalization, which is the sort of capability of converting the natural language reasoning to say the formal language. And that's harder than translation because it's different than say translating between two programming languages. You're translatin…”
Translating formal Lean code into English is easier than auto-formalization
“There's also auto-informalization, which is kind of translate back, I mean, from Lean to English. That's easier than auto-formalization, because most of the machines' AI have seen a lot more English than Lean.”
Polu: DeepMind IMO breakthrough relied on scaling RL and autoformalization
“I think the DeepMind team just did a good job of scaling. I think there's nothing too magical in their approach, even if it hasn't been published as a Dan Silver talk from seven days ago, where it goes a little bit into more details. It feels like there's noth…”