SEED-PROVER: DEEP AND BROAD REASONING FOR AUTOMATED THEOREM PROVING

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ByteDance's Seed-Prover proved 5 of 6 problems at IMO 2025, the third AI system to do so, and the first Chinese model, in recent weeks. The system combines "lemma-style" whole-proof reasoning that breaks problems into modular components with three-tiered inference strategies from quick refinements to days-long reasoning that accumulates thousands of mathematical facts.