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Learning to Repair Lean Proofs from Compiler Feedback (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A new training set pairs 260,000 broken Lean proofs with the compiler's error message, the corrected proof, and a plain-language explanation of the mistake. A small 4-billion-parameter model trained on it fixed proofs in one try better than the best open-source baseline.

Abstract

As neural theorem provers become increasingly agentic, the ability to interpret and act on compiler feedback is critical. However, existing Lean datasets consist almost exclusively of correct proofs, offering little supervision for understanding and repairing failures. We study Lean proof repair as a supervised learning problem: given an erroneous proof and compiler feedback, predict both a corrected proof and a natural-language diagnosis grounded in the same feedback. We introduce APRIL (Automated Proof Repair in Lean), a dataset of 260,000 supervised tuples pairing systematically generated proof failures with compiler diagnostics and aligned repair and explanation targets. Training language models on APRIL substantially improves repair accuracy and feedback-conditioned reasoning; in our single-shot repair evaluation setting, a finetuned 4B-parameter model outperforms the strongest open-source baseline. We view diagnostic-conditioned supervision as a complementary training signal for feedback-using provers. Our dataset is available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/uw-math-ai/APRIL.

Evan Wang, Simon Chess, Daniel Lee, Siyuan Ge, Ajit Mallavarapu, Jarod Alper, Vasily Ilin
arXiv:2602.02990 · cs.LG · submitted Feb 3, 2026 · updated Mar 13, 2026
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