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title = "Neural Wani: Toward Accelerating the Automated Theorem Prover wani for Dependent Type Theory",
author = "Miyagawa, Nanako and
Daido, Hinari and
Bekki, Daisuke",
editor = "Bernard, Timoth{\'e}e and
Chersoni, Emmanuele and
Rambelli, Giulia",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on the Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics ({B}ri{G}ap-3)",
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year = "2026",
address = "Paris, France",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.brigap-1.2/",
pages = "12--21",
abstract = "This paper proposes Neural Wani, an integration of a neural model into the automated theorem prover wani for Dependent Type Theory (DTT), aimed at accelerating proof search in natural language inference (NLI) pipelines. We implemented a lightweight LSTM-based model to predict the probability distribution of applicable inference rules and integrated it into wani{'}s backward inference process. Evaluation using the JSeM dataset demonstrates that Neural Wani achieves a 1.41x speedup compared to the standard non-neural baseline. Although slight overhead is observed in simpler proofs, our results indicate that neural-symbolic integration effectively guides search in complex DTT-based automated theorem proving."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Neural Wani: Toward Accelerating the Automated Theorem Prover wani for Dependent Type Theory
%A Miyagawa, Nanako
%A Daido, Hinari
%A Bekki, Daisuke
%Y Bernard, Timothée
%Y Chersoni, Emmanuele
%Y Rambelli, Giulia
%S Proceedings of the Third Workshop on the Bridges and Gaps between Formal and Computational Linguistics (BriGap-3)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Paris, France
%F miyagawa-etal-2026-neural
%X This paper proposes Neural Wani, an integration of a neural model into the automated theorem prover wani for Dependent Type Theory (DTT), aimed at accelerating proof search in natural language inference (NLI) pipelines. We implemented a lightweight LSTM-based model to predict the probability distribution of applicable inference rules and integrated it into wani’s backward inference process. Evaluation using the JSeM dataset demonstrates that Neural Wani achieves a 1.41x speedup compared to the standard non-neural baseline. Although slight overhead is observed in simpler proofs, our results indicate that neural-symbolic integration effectively guides search in complex DTT-based automated theorem proving.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.brigap-1.2/
%P 12-21
Markdown (Informal)
[Neural Wani: Toward Accelerating the Automated Theorem Prover wani for Dependent Type Theory](https://aclanthology.org/2026.brigap-1.2/) (Miyagawa et al., BriGap 2026)
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