Translating natural language into formal language such as Lean 4 has gained attention for its potential to automate formal proof development. Automated methods provide a scalable and cost-effective alternative to manual formalization, driving increasing interest in this task. However, existing LLMs mainly rely on instruction tuning and lack fine-grained structural and semantic alignment, making it difficult to generate syntactically and logically sound formal proofs.To address this, we propose a reinforcement learning framework ReLean that enables LLMs to generate high-quality Lean 4 statements from natural language.We first fine-tune a LLaMA3-8B model on NL\u2013Lean 4 data to obtain a base translator with basic translation ability. Then, we design a multi-aspect dense reward mechanism covering four key dimensions: semantic alignment, term-level alignment, global-level alignment, and compile-checking. Separate reward models are trained via preference modeling, and their normalized outputs are combined to guide optimization via PPO. Finally, a curriculum learning strategy based on multi-dimensional difficulty allows the model to learn progressively from simple to complex cases. Experiments on NL-to-Lean 4 tasks show that our method consistently outperforms baseline models. Further analysis on reward model and curriculum learning confirms their effectiveness in enhancing model performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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