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The Tactician

A Seamless, Interactive Tactic Learner and Prover for Coq

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNAI,volume 12236)

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We present Tactician, a tactic learner and prover for the Coq Proof Assistant. Tactician helps users make tactical proof decisions while they retain control over the general proof strategy. To this end, Tactician learns from previously written tactic scripts and gives users either suggestions about the next tactic to be executed or altogether takes over the burden of proof synthesis. Tactician’s goal is to provide users with a seamless, interactive, and intuitive experience together with robust and adaptive proof automation.

This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund under the project AI&Reasoning (reg. no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000466) and by the AI4REASON ERC Consolidator grant nr. 649043.

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  1. Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic

    Lasse Blaauwbroek & Josef Urban

  2. Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Lasse Blaauwbroek & Herman Geuvers

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Blaauwbroek, L., Urban, J., Geuvers, H. (2020). The Tactician. In: Benzmüller, C., Miller, B. (eds) Intelligent Computer Mathematics. CICM 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53518-6_17

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