logoalt Hacker News

proof_by_vibes05/14/20251 replyview on HN

Not necessarily. Theorem provers provide goals that can serve the same function as "debug text." Instead of interpreting the natural language chosen by the dev who wrote the compiler, these goals provide concrete, type-accurate statements that indicate the progress of an ongoing proof.


Replies

j2kun05/14/2025

I'm referring to what the authors actually claim they did in the paper. They operated on XLA-generated textual IR.

Cf. the second paragraph of 3.3.4 of https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/B...