Wenda Li

AIAI, Informatics Forum,

University of Edinburgh,

10 Crichton Street,

Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK

I am a lecturer in hybrid AI at the University of Edinburgh and a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this, I was a research associate and a PhD student working with Prof. Larry Paulson at the University of Cambridge.

My research interest includes

machine learning for theorem proving,
interactive theorem proving,
verified symbolic computing,
and mechanised mathematics.

I believe modern machine learning techniques will revolutionise the way people do mechanised proofs, so that we can build more reliable systems.

Feel free to drop me an email if you are interested in my research and want to have a project with me (PhD, MSc, summer intern, etc.).

selected publications

ITP

Formalising Half of a Graduate Textbook on Number Theory

Manuel Eberl, Anthony Bordg, Lawrence Paulson, and 1 more author

In International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving 2024

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{zhou2024dont,
  title = {Formalising Half of a Graduate Textbook on Number Theory},
  author = {Eberl, Manuel and Bordg, Anthony and Paulson, Lawrence and Li, Wenda},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving},
  year = {2024},
}

arXiv

Multilingual Mathematical Autoformalization

Albert Q. Jiang, Wenda Li, and Mateja Jamnik

2023

Bib

@misc{jiang2023multilingual,
  title = {Multilingual Mathematical Autoformalization},
  author = {Jiang, Albert Q. and Li, Wenda and Jamnik, Mateja},
  year = {2023},
  eprint = {2311.03755},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CL}
}

ICLR (oral)

Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs

Albert Qiaochu Jiang, Sean Welleck, Jin Peng Zhou, and 6 more authors

In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{jiang2023draft,
  title = {Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs},
  author = {Jiang, Albert Qiaochu and Welleck, Sean and Zhou, Jin Peng and Lacroix, Timothee and Liu, Jiacheng and Li, Wenda and Jamnik, Mateja and Lample, Guillaume and Wu, Yuhuai},
  booktitle = {The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations },
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=SMa9EAovKMC}
}

ICLR

IsarStep: a Benchmark for High-level Mathematical Reasoning

Wenda Li, Lei Yu, Yuhuai Wu, and 1 more author

In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021

Bib HTML PDF Code

@inproceedings{li2021isarstep,
  title = {IsarStep: a Benchmark for High-level Mathematical Reasoning},
  author = {Li, Wenda and Yu, Lei and Wu, Yuhuai and Paulson, Lawrence C.},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations,},
  year = {2021},
}

JAR

Evaluating winding numbers and counting complex roots through Cauchy indices in Isabelle/HOL

Wenda Li, and Lawrence C Paulson

Journal of Automated Reasoning 2020

Bib HTML PDF

@article{li2020evaluating,
  title = {Evaluating winding numbers and counting complex roots through Cauchy indices in Isabelle/HOL},
  author = {Li, Wenda and Paulson, Lawrence C},
  journal = {Journal of Automated Reasoning},
  volume = {64},
  number = {2},
  pages = {331--360},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {Springer}
}

JAR

Deciding univariate polynomial problems using untrusted certificates in Isabelle/HOL

Wenda Li, Grant Olney Passmore, and Lawrence C Paulson

Journal of Automated Reasoning, 2019

Bib HTML PDF Code

@article{li2019deciding,
  title = {Deciding univariate polynomial problems using untrusted certificates in Isabelle/HOL},
  author = {Li, Wenda and Passmore, Grant Olney and Paulson, Lawrence C},
  journal = {Journal of Automated Reasoning,},
  volume = {62},
  number = {1},
  pages = {69--91},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {Springer}
}