综述人工智能在数学推理中的发展,涵盖从解题到证明再到发现的全链条技术。
Artificial Intelligence for Mathematical Reasoning: An Integrated Survey of Language Models, Neuro-symbolic Systems, and Verified Discovery

- 按非形式化、形式化、发现与验证四维度整合数学推理方法
- 梳理多类基准测试并揭示评测中的饱和与污染问题
- 适合对AI辅助数学研究感兴趣的科研人员和工程师
数学推理长期是机器智能的严苛考验;过去十年间,它已从NLP中的小众问题演变为最重要的AI前沿之一。本文系统梳理该领域演进:从早期基于规则的数学应用题求解器、模板驱动的几何系统,到神经表达生成、大语言模型提示,再到当代的推理模型、多智能体系统、神经符号定理证明器及验证性发现流程。按四个维度组织:(i) 文本与图表的非形式化推理,涵盖数学应用题、多模态几何与视觉语言模型;(ii) 证明助手中的形式化推理,包括自动形式化、策略预测、编译器引导修复与证明搜索;(iii) 数学发现,系统可提出构造、改进界值或协助破解开放问题;(iv) 推理与训练阶段技术,如思维链提示、工具使用、过程奖励模型与RLVR,逐步实现生成与验证的结合。我们整理了涵盖小学算术、竞赛数学、几何、形式证明、多模态与多语言推理以及专家评估的重大基准,并分析基准饱和、污染、报告不一致,以及pass@1、多数投票与验证器辅助pass@$k$之间的区别。批判性审视失败模式:对扰动的脆弱性、奖励劫持、多模态定位失败、脆弱形式化及推理规模下的高能耗。结合数学家最新观点,提出未来方向:以验证性发现工作流为核心,提升推理效率,并构建使AI辅助形式化普及化的基础设施。配套资源:https://github.com/Starscream-11813/awesome-AI4Math。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Mathematical reasoning has long served as a stringent test of machine intelligence; over the past decade, it has moved from a niche problem within NLP to one of the most consequential AI frontiers. This survey provides a unified account of the field's evolution, from early rule-based math word problem (MWP) solvers and template-driven geometry systems, through neural expression generation and LLM prompting, to contemporary reasoning models, multi-agent systems, neuro-symbolic theorem provers, and verified discovery workflows. We organize the landscape along four axes: (i) informal reasoning over text and diagrams, spanning MWP solving, multimodal geometry, and VLMs; (ii) formal reasoning in proof assistants, including autoformalization, tactic prediction, compiler-guided repair, and proof search; (iii) mathematical discovery, where systems propose constructions, improve bounds, or assist attacks on open problems; and (iv) the inference and training-time techniques, including CoT prompting, tool use, process reward models, and RLVR, that increasingly connect generation with verification. We catalog major benchmarks across grade-school arithmetic, competition mathematics, geometry, formal proving, multimodal and multilingual reasoning, and expert evaluation, and we examine benchmark saturation, contamination, reporting mismatches, and the distinction between pass@1, majority voting, and verifier-assisted pass@$k$. We critically assess failure modes: brittleness under perturbation, reward hacking, multimodal grounding failures, fragile formalization, and the energy cost of reasoning-scale inference. Drawing on recent perspectives from working mathematicians, we identify future directions centered on verified-discovery workflows, reasoning efficiency, and infrastructure to make AI-assisted formalization broadly usable. Companion materials: https://github.com/Starscream-11813/awesome-AI4Math.
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