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AdvancedMathBench: A Benchmark Suite for Advanced Mathematical Proof Generation and Verification

Authors
Lingkai Kong, Zijian Wu, Yuzhe Gu...
Categories
cs.CL
arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11849v1
PDF
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.11849v1

Brief

AdvancedMathBench benchmarks advanced mathematical proof generation and verification by providing ProverBench (296 problems) and VerifierBench (888 model-generated trajectories) plus an expert-trained automatic verification pipeline that issues fine-grained error judgments. Experiments (arXiv 2026-07-13) show GPT-5.5-xhigh scores 75.8/66.1 on UGD/QE splits and best verification Balanced F1 is 65.1, highlighting substantial remaining gaps; only the abstract was available for this summary.

Why it matters

AdvancedMathBench (published on arXiv 2026-07-13) introduces ProverBench with 296 advanced-mathematics proof problems spanning undergraduate and doctoral qualifying-exam levels, and VerifierBench with 888 model-generated proof trajectories paired with expert ground truth.

Key details

  • The authors build an automatic verification pipeline trained on large-scale expert annotations to output correctness verdicts and fine-grained error diagnoses; the pipeline reportedly shows strong agreement with human experts on held-out proof trajectories.
  • Frontier LLMs remain challenged: GPT-5.5-xhigh scores 75.8 and 66.1 on the UGD (undergraduate) and QE (qualifying-exam) ProverBench splits, respectively; the best model for proof verification attains a Balanced F1 of 65.1, with generally low true-negative rates indicating weak critical error detection.
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Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on high-school and olympiad-style mathematics, yet their capabilities on advanced mathematics remain poorly understood. Existing benchmarks, however, fall short in both scope and evaluation granularity: they provide limited disciplinary coverage and often rely on final-answer correctness or coarse judgments, leaving the validity of the reasoning process inadequately assessed. To bridge this gap, we introduce AdvancedMathBench, a benchmark suite designed to evaluate advanced mathematical reasoning capabilities. Its core proof-generation benchmark, ProverBench, contains 296 problems spanning undergraduate and doctoral qualifying-exam levels. To provide reliable evaluation of the proofs, we develop a dedicated automatic verification pipeline trained on large-scale expert annotations to produce both correctness verdicts and fine-grained assessments of proof errors, which exhibits strong agreement with human experts on held-out proof trajectories. We further introduce VerifierBench, consisting of 888 model-generated proof trajectories paired with expert ground truth, to evaluate whether models can correctly judge proof validity and provide sound verification rationales. Experiments show that AdvancedMathBench remains challenging for frontier models. On proof generation, the best-performing model, GPT-5.5-xhigh, achieves only 75.8 and 66.1 on the UGD and QE splits, respectively, indicating substantial room for improvement on advanced mathematical proof construction. On proof verification, the best model attains a Balanced F1 of only 65.1, and models generally exhibit low true negative rates, suggesting that critical error detection remains a major bottleneck.