Research mathematics is a generator–verifier–reviser control loop

What the laboratory reports

• DeepMind distinguishes research mathematics from bounded competition problems because it requires literature, long dependencies and specialist judgment.
• It describes data scarcity in advanced domains as a cause of superficial understanding and hallucinations.
• Aletheia uses generator, verifier and reviser roles, incorporates search, and can admit failure.

The mathematical problem

The loop is a partially observed control process with costly actions. At every step the system must choose whether to generate, retrieve, verify, revise, escalate or stop while controlling residual error and compute cost.

GERO's proposed response

• Represent each candidate as a claim graph with unresolved frontier nodes.
• Use a Bellman-style policy to spend verification compute where it most reduces decision risk.
• Make abstention a terminal state with an evidence record, not a conversational failure.

A falsifiable experiment

• Compare fixed verification budgets with risk-adaptive routing.
• Measure false acceptance, expert minutes and compute per resolved dependency.
• Audit whether retrieval supports the exact theorem conditions used in the proof.

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