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Comment by vanyle

This paper is a large amount of nothing. First, natural language is not as precise as lean, so you have multiple ways to translate a NL argument to Lean. As shown in Fig 1, the LLM did a decent job at translating the argument about roots in a succint way.

Moreover, the paper claims that the NL arguments of Navier-Stokes are stronger than the Lean ones. My understanding is that the translator LLM got lazy and wrote the minimal amount of code that satisfied the theorem without the extra stronger claims.

It is common in mathematical papers to say "And by the way, this actually proves [stronger claim]", but this is something an AI with a precise goal of performing a translation would never do, as it's goal is to translate the proof, not to quality mathematics.

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