POPL 2026
Sun 11 - Sat 17 January 2026 Rennes, France
Sun 11 Jan 2026 16:24 - 16:34 at Salle 13 - Fourth Session Chair(s): Guillaume Baudart

Autoformalization, the task of translating natural-language mathematics into a formal language such as Lean, has the potential to change the nature of mathematical discovery — providing mathematicians more certainty via verification during their proof-discovery process and even facilitating automated mathematical reasoning. In recent years, language models have made great strides towards autoformalization, but the task remains challenging both because of the rigidness of the target formal languages and the inherent uncertainty in informal texts. We propose a method for autoformalization via language-model probabilistic programming. Using tools for constrained generation from language models (LMs), we probabilistically steer LMs by incorporating two correctness signals: (i) incremental type-checking in Lean to rule out generations with no valid completion, and (ii) cycle-consistency whereby a backtranslation of the formalized statement is constrained to be similar to the original informal statement. We demonstrate that both of these signals can improve autoformalization quality on the miniF2F and LeanEuclid Book datasets, while requiring fewer tokens and shorter runtime.

Sun 11 Jan

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16:00 - 18:00
Fourth SessionLAFI at Salle 13
Chair(s): Guillaume Baudart Inria
16:00
10m
Talk
Multi-Agent Systems for Traceable Bayesian Workflow
LAFI
Xianda Sun University of Cambridge, Andrew D. Gordon Cogna and University of Edinburgh, Hong Ge University of Cambridge
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16:12
10m
Talk
Grammar-Constrained LLM Generation for Reliable and Efficient Probabilistic Program Synthesis
LAFI
Madhav Kanda University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Shubham Ugare Meta, Sasa Misailovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
16:24
10m
Talk
Language-Model Probabilistic Programming for Improving Autoformalization via Cycle Consistency and Incremental Type-Checking
LAFI
Mauricio Barba da Costa MIT, Fabian Zaiser MIT, Katherine Collins MIT, Romir Patel MIT, Timothy O'Donnell , Alexander K. Lew Yale University, Joshua B. Tenenbaum Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vikash K. Mansinghka Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cameron Freer Massachusetts Institute of Technology
16:35
80m
Poster
Poster Session
LAFI