Andy: A Mathematical Agent for Rigorous Proof and Autonomous Research
arXiv:2608.15052
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper's most transferable construction is not its bespoke delayed synchronization controller, but its certificate-aware proof DAG with interface fingerprints and selective invalidation. A revised node invalidates only itself when its externally visible interface is unchanged, while interface changes revoke all descendants; this is a precise dependency rule for safely reusing expensive verified computations. The same mechanism can turn neural-network graph optimization, quantization, robustness analysis, and experiment pipelines into incrementally verifiable systems that avoid recomputing certificates after local edits.
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2026
Represent a neural computation or verification pipeline as a directed acyclic graph whose nodes carry cached certificates for tensor shapes, numerical ranges, Lipschitz estimates, quantization error, or equivalence to a reference module. After locally replacing or optimizing one node, compare its old and new interface fingerprints and revoke certificates only along the dependency cone when the interface changed. This enables safe incremental verification during architecture search, compiler…
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