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TheoremGraph: Bridging Formal and Informal Mathematics

Abstract

Mathematical knowledge is organized around statements and their dependencies, but this structure is exposed unevenly: informal papers cite mostly at the document level, while formal libraries record fine-grained dependencies over a much smaller body of mathematics. We introduce TheoremGraph, a unified statement-level dependency graph spanning both: 11.7M theorem-like environments parsed from mathematics arXiv with 18.3M candidate directed dependencies, each labeled by the extractor that proposed it, and LeanGraph, a Lean 4 elaborator-level extractor producing 388,105 declaration nodes and 11.3M typed edges across 25 Lean projects. We bridge the two graphs by embedding generated natural-language slogans into a shared semantic space; an LLM judge affirms 47,952 (informal, formal) matches among the candidates above a 0.8 cosine-similarity floor (48% of those judged), with the acceptance rate rising to 87% for scores ≥ 0.9. On the MathlibQR fair-810 retrieval benchmark, our name-and-signature retriever, reranked with the same Qwen3-Reranker-8B protocol as LeanSearch v2, reaches 0.883 Recall@10 / 0.739 nDCG@10, +10.3pp / +11.6pp over its reranked system, a comparison we verify by reproducing its reported numbers with our code. A recall-tuned variant of our retriever comes within 0.5pp of that reranked recall with no reranker at all. On 24 held-out Mathlib theorems, retrieval raises the number of correctly autoformalized statements from 5 to 8, using a quarter of the tokens of library search. We release the dataset, extractors, HTTP API, and MCP interface as infrastructure for mathematical search, attribution, and agentic formalization.

open until 14 Dec 2026

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