Constructing a Neuro-Symbolic Mathematician from First Principles

📅 2025-12-31
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This work addresses the logical inconsistencies that large language models often exhibit in complex reasoning due to the absence of formal axiomatic systems. To this end, the authors propose Mathesis, a novel neuro-symbolic architecture that uniquely integrates a differentiable logic engine with higher-order hypergraph representations. The framework employs a Symbolic Reasoning Kernel (SRK) to map logical constraints onto a continuous energy landscape, thereby recasting proof search as an energy minimization problem. It further combines Monte Carlo tree search with evolutionary proof strategies to enable multi-step deductive reasoning. By leveraging a Hypergraph Transformer and a semantic unification mechanism within an end-to-end trainable framework, Mathesis effectively unifies symbolic reasoning with neural learning, significantly enhancing both logical consistency and multi-step reasoning capabilities in theorem proving.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit persistent logical failures in complex reasoning due to the lack of an internal axiomatic framework. We propose Mathesis, a neuro-symbolic architecture that encodes mathematical states as higher-order hypergraphs and uses a Symbolic Reasoning Kernel (SRK)--a differentiable logic engine that maps constraints to a continuous energy landscape. By defining a global energy function E(G), where zero energy implies logical consistency, the SRK yields gradient-based signals to train a Hypergraph Transformer Brain, turning proof search into energy minimization. Multi-step deduction is enabled via Monte Carlo Tree Search and Evolutionary Proof Search, guided by learned value functions and semantic unification.
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logical failures
complex reasoning
axiomatic framework
mathematical reasoning
proof search
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Neuro-Symbolic Architecture
Symbolic Reasoning Kernel
Energy-Based Reasoning
Hypergraph Transformer
Evolutionary Proof Search
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