nanoproof

Open and efficient automated theorem prover. Built on top of nanochat and the official AlphaProof pseudocode, with several open-source datasets and tools wired in. The pipeline covers:

• pretraining on Nemotron-CC-Math (~20B tokens)
• midtraining on Lean code from GitHub (~65M tokens)
• supervised fine-tuning on LeanTree (~260k transitions extracted from Mathlib, see https://github.com/kripner/leantree)
• a GPT-2 BPE tokenizer with extra Lean / math special tokens
• interaction with Lean via the LeanTree server
• an MCTS-based prover with a learned policy and value head
• multi-GPU RL training with DDP and a pool of actor threads driving a fleet of remote Lean servers

Best score so far: 52.7% on MiniF2F-Valid (512 simulations).

Setup

cd nanoproof
uv sync --extra cpu --group dev
source .venv/bin/activate

For GPU hosts swap --extra cpu for --extra gpu.

Runs (logs, checkpoints, eval results) land under $NANOPROOF_HOME (default ~/.nanoproof/). Set the env var if you want them somewhere else.

Datasets

nanoproof uses several datasets across pretraining, midtraining, SFT, RL, and evaluation. They all live under nanoproof/data/:

Name	Stage	Source
nemotron	pretrain	Nemotron-CC-Math-v1 (~20B tokens)
leangithubraw	midtrain	Lean code from GitHub (~65M tokens)
leantree	SFT	LeanTree transitions from Mathlib (~260k)
leanworkbook	RL	Lean-Workbook formal statements
numinamath	RL	NuminaMath-LEAN formal statements
deepseek_prover	RL	DeepSeek-Prover-V1 formal statements
minif2f	benchmark	MiniF2F (valid + test)
proofnet	benchmark	ProofNet (valid + test)

nemotron is a gated HuggingFace dataset: accept the terms at huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-CC-Math-v1 and run hf auth login before downloading. The other datasets need no authentication.

Download them all with a single command:

python -m nanoproof.data.download

Or pick a subset (individual datasets or stage aliases pretrain, midtrain, sft, rl, bench):

python -m nanoproof.data.download minif2f proofnet leantree
python -m nanoproof.data.download sft rl

leangithubraw is not published to HuggingFace; build it locally from the source repos listed in nanoproof/data/midtrain/leangithub_urls.txt:

python -m nanoproof.data.midtrain.leangithubraw build

The RL datasets (leanworkbook, numinamath, deepseek_prover) also pull a pre-computed whitelist from data/whitelists/ alongside the source file. list_theorems(split, lean_version=...) uses it to skip theorems that don't initialize under the given Lean toolchain. Whitelists currently ship for Lean v4.27.0; regenerate for other versions with each module's check-init CLI action (which needs a running Lean server).

Tokenizer

Build the tokenizer (GPT-2 BPE plus extra Lean / math special tokens):

python -m scripts.tok_build

Training

The three pre-RL stages share the same launch shape. Run on a single GPU:

python -m nanoproof.pretrain

Or with DDP across N GPUs:

torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=N -m nanoproof.pretrain

The same applies to nanoproof.midtrain and nanoproof.sft. Each stage writes its outputs under $NANOPROOF_HOME/{stage}/ with a timestamped run directory that holds logs, args, and checkpoints.

RL Loop

The RL loop alternates between collecting MCTS rollouts and training the policy / value model. It runs as a single multi-GPU process (typically launched via torchrun) that talks to one or more remote LeanTree servers. There is no separate prover worker process; actor threads live inside the RL process.

Prerequisite: Lean project

The LeanTree server needs a Lean project with dependencies built. For MiniF2F evaluation you need both mathlib and formal_conjectures (which contains the MiniF2F formalizations).

Create the project with leantree:

from leantree import LeanProject
LeanProject.create("my_project", lean_version="v4.27.0", libraries=["mathlib"])

Add formal_conjectures to my_project/lakefile.toml:

[[require]]
name = "formal_conjectures"
scope = "google-deepmind"
git = "https://github.com/google-deepmind/formal-conjectures"
rev = "89c6801f9f05cf63105d66843ed70b1e4ceb0c69"

Then add an import in the root module (e.g. my_project/MyProject.lean) so that lake build actually builds the dependency:

import FormalConjecturesForMathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.NthRoot
import FormalConjectures.Util.Answer

Finally, run lake update && lake build in the project directory. lake update fetches dependencies and downloads the prebuilt .olean cache.

The formal_conjectures revision must be compatible with your Lean version. The rev above is known to work with Lean v4.27.0.

Prerequisite: LeanTree server(s)

For Mathlib-only setups (e.g. SFT data extraction):

leanserver --project-path /path/to/leantree_project/ \
    --repl-exe /path/to/leantree/lean-repl/.lake/build/bin/repl \
    --imports Mathlib \
    --max-processes 32 \
    --address=0.0.0.0 \
    --port=8000

For MiniF2F evaluation (also needs formal_conjectures):

leanserver --project-path /path/to/leantree_project/ \
    --repl-exe /path/to/leantree/lean-repl/.lake/build/bin/repl \
    --imports Mathlib FormalConjecturesForMathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.NthRoot FormalConjectures.Util.Answer \
    --max-processes 32 \
    --address=0.0.0.0 \
    --port=8000 \
    --warmup

--max-processes controls how many concurrent Lean REPLs the server can serve. The RL process queries each server's /status endpoint at startup and spawns exactly one actor thread per process slot, fanning across all listed servers. Wait for the server's imports to finish before launching RL; /status reports ready before the imports actually settle.

Launch

Single GPU:

python -m nanoproof.rl \
    --model-path sft/<run>/model_<step>.pt \
    --lean-servers 10.10.25.31:8000 \
    --lean-project /path/to/leantree_project

Multi-GPU with DDP:

torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=2 -m nanoproof.rl \
    --model-path sft/<run>/model_<step>.pt \
    --lean-servers 10.10.25.31:8000 10.10.25.32:8000 \
    --lean-project /path/to/leantree_project

--model-path is resolved relative to $NANOPROOF_HOME/models/ if not absolute. --lean-project falls back to $LEAN_PROJECT_PATH if unset; the Lean version is read from its lean-toolchain file and used to pick the matching dataset whitelists.

To resume a crashed run, point at the prior log directory instead of supplying a model:

torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=2 -m nanoproof.rl \
    --resume-from rl/<prior_run> \
    --lean-servers ... --lean-project ...

This loads the latest checkpoint (model, optimizer, step, replay and negative buffer shards, matchmaker stats). If the prior run only saved partial optimizer state, add --resume-fresh-optimizer to start the optimizer from scratch.

Useful collection / training flags:

• --datasets numinamath leanworkbook deepseek_prover chooses the theorem mix.
• --num-sampled-tactics, --num-simulations-eval, --first-token-occurrences-cap, --max-gen-tokens tune the search.
• --disable-solvers filters {grind, lia, grobner, aesop} from model output. Collection still tries grind on unexpanded leaves as a free finisher (kept in the proof tree but excluded from the replay buffer); eval injects grind as a synthetic candidate at every node.
• --no-proof-simplification skips the redundant-node prune during collection.
• --unlikelihood-weight, --negative-fraction, --negative-buffer-window-size control unlikelihood training on failed tactics.
• --value-weight, --fraction-sft, --device-batch-size, --target-examples-per-step, --num-updates-per-step shape the training step.
• --eval-every, --save-every, --eval-start accept either Nsteps or a H:M:S interval.
• --memory-profile DIR dumps a CUDA memory snapshot on first OOM.

Run python -m nanoproof.rl --help for the full list.

Web monitor

When the RL loop starts on the master rank, it launches a Flask monitor on http://localhost:5050. The page shows training stats, prover thread states, GPU and Lean server health, evaluation history, and a live log stream.

The React frontend lives in nanoproof/web/:

cd nanoproof/web
npm install
npm run build

To poke at the UI without running real training:

python tests/test_cli.py

Evaluation

Use scripts/prover_eval.py to score a checkpoint on a benchmark:

python scripts/prover_eval.py \
    --model-path rl/<run>/model_<step>.pt \
    --lean-servers 10.10.25.31:8000 10.10.25.32:8000 \
    --datasets minif2f \
    --split valid \
    --num-simulations 512

Pass --run-dir rl/<run> instead of --model-path to sweep every checkpoint in the run; the order is bisected (middle, quartiles, eighths) so an interrupted sweep still has even step coverage. --datasets accepts a comma-separated subset of minif2f,leanworkbook,proofnet. --continue retries only theorems that previously errored, --force overwrites prior results, and --output-dir overrides the default <checkpoint_dir>/eval_<step>_<dataset>/ location (single model + single dataset only). Most of the search and inference flags from nanoproof.rl are also available here.

For a quick repeat-runs estimate of MiniF2F-test variance:

python scripts/test_eval.py \
    --model-path rl/<run>/model_<step>.pt \
    --lean-servers ... \
    --num-runs 8

Other scripts

A handful of small utilities under scripts/:

• scripts/prove.py runs the prover against a single theorem (or REPL).
• scripts/interact.py is an interactive prover REPL (raw engine or tactic model).
• scripts/bench_inference.py benchmarks tactic-generation throughput.
• scripts/inspect_buffer.py, inspect_parquet.py, inspect_problems.py, inspect_proofs.py print the contents of replay buffers, parquet shards, and proof artifacts.
• scripts/tok_eval.py, scripts/tok_show.py inspect the tokenizer.

Ideas

• try training on state_after as well, just to give the model more training signal (it was done in some paper, maybe GPT-f)
• let tokens attend bi-directionally inside the fixed-size state (a la PrefixLM)
• try proving the negation in each node (if the critic deems it likely to succeed)
• critic training: sampling ratio based on proof length (a la https://leandojo.org/leanprogress.html)
• tactic logprob filtering and retraining (akin to BFS-Prover-2)

Cite

If you find nanoproof helpful in your research cite simply as:

@misc{nanoproof,
  author = {Matej Kripner},
  title = {nanoproof},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  url = {https://github.com/kripner/nanoproof}
}