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Talia Ringer: Formal Verification and Deep Learning

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Relationship Between Code and Proof Automation

One of the ideas you brought up in your concrete problems and proof automation talk was this idea of relation discovery. Could you describe that a little bit? Yeah, this is a really interesting one that's informing like a lot of research that I have going forward. The match that AlphaGo lost was a there was a game state that was played that was almost equivalent to but not the same as. It was some interesting kind of semantic permutation of some state that it had seen before in training and it was completely unable to draw that connection. And I think this happens a lot also with code and proofs where you've trained these tools on an internet full of code and Proofs about different data types

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