← Kaiyu Yang
Background
kaiyuy [at] alumni.princeton.edu
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GitHub
Resume
CV
Bio
Positions
2026 — present
Apodex
Lead Scientist
2024 — 2025
Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR)
Research Scientist
2022 — 2024
California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, advised by
Yisong Yue
and
Pietro Perona
Education
2022
Princeton University
PhD in Computer Science, advised by
Jia Deng
2018
University of Michigan
MS in Computer Science and Engineering
2016
Tsinghua University
B.Eng. in Computer Science and B.S. in Mathematics
Publications
Also on
Google Scholar
. * equal contribution, † equal advising.
COLM 2026
Goedel-Code-Prover: Hierarchical Proof Search for Open State-of-the-Art Code Verification
Zenan Li*, Ziran Yang*, Deyuan (Mike) He, Haoyu Zhao, Andrew Zhao, Shange Tang,
Kaiyu Yang
, Aarti Gupta, Zhendong Su, Chi Jin
ICLR 2026
Lean Finder: Semantic Search for Mathlib That Understands User Intents
Jialin Lu, Kye Emond,
Kaiyu Yang
, Swarat Chaudhuri, Weiran Sun, Wuyang Chen
project
ICLR 2026
ProofOptimizer: Training Language Models to Simplify Proofs without Human Demonstrations
Alex Gu, Bartosz Piotrowski, Fabian Gloeckle,
Kaiyu Yang
, Aram Markosyan
project
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demo
ICLR 2026
Goedel-Prover-V2: Scaling Formal Theorem Proving with Scaffolded Data Synthesis and Self-Correction
Yong Lin*, Shange Tang*, Bohan Lyu*, Ziran Yang*, Jui-Hui Chung*, Haoyu Zhao*, Lai Jiang*, Yihan Geng*, Jiawei Ge, Jingruo Sun, Jiayun Wu, Jiri Gesi, Ximing Lu, David Acuna,
Kaiyu Yang
, Hongzhou Lin*, Yejin Choi, Danqi Chen, Sanjeev Arora, Chi Jin*
project
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code
ICLR 2026
Verina: Benchmarking Verifiable Code Generation
Zhe Ye, Zhengxu Yan, Timothe Kasriel, Jingxuan He,
Kaiyu Yang
, Dawn Song
project
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data
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code
COLM 2025
Goedel-Prover: A Frontier Model for Open-Source Automated Theorem Proving
Yong Lin*, Shange Tang*, Bohan Lyu, Jiayun Wu, Hongzhou Lin,
Kaiyu Yang
, Jia Li, Mengzhou Xia, Danqi Chen, Sanjeev Arora, Chi Jin
project
·
code
ICML 2025
CACM 2025
Formal Mathematical Reasoning: A New Frontier in AI
Kaiyu Yang
, Gabriel Poesia, Jingxuan He, Wenda Li, Kristin Lauter, Swarat Chaudhuri, Dawn Song
CACM
CAV 2025
PyEuclid: A Versatile Formal Plane Geometry System in Python
Zhaoyu Li*, Hangrui Bi*, Jialiang Sun*, Zenan Li,
Kaiyu Yang
, Xujie Si
ICLR 2025
Proving Olympiad Inequalities by Synergizing LLMs and Symbolic Reasoning
Zenan Li*, Zhaoyu Li*, Wen Tang, Xian Zhang, Yuan Yao, Xujie Si, Fan Yang,
Kaiyu Yang
†, Xiaoxing Ma†
code
NeuS 2025
Lean Copilot: Large Language Models as Copilots for Theorem Proving in Lean
Peiyang Song,
Kaiyu Yang
, Anima Anandkumar
code
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demo
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talk
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media
NeurIPS 2024
SciInstruct: A Self-Reflective Instruction Annotated Dataset for Training Scientific Language Models
Dan Zhang, Ziniu Hu, Sining Zhoubian, Zhengxiao Du,
Kaiyu Yang
, Zihan Wang, Yisong Yue, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang
code
COLM 2024
A Survey on Deep Learning for Theorem Proving
Zhaoyu Li, Jialiang Sun, Logan Murphy, Qidong Su, Zenan Li, Xian Zhang,
Kaiyu Yang
, Xujie Si
code
ICML 2024
Autoformalizing Euclidean Geometry
Logan Murphy*,
Kaiyu Yang
*, Jialiang Sun, Zhaoyu Li, Anima Anandkumar, Xujie Si
code
NeurIPS 2023
LeanDojo: Theorem Proving with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
Kaiyu Yang
, Aidan Swope, Alex Gu, Rahul Chalamala, Peiyang Song, Shixing Yu, Saad Godil, Ryan Prenger, Anima Anandkumar
project
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code
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talk
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slides
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media
CVPR 2023
Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation
Alexander Raistrick*, Lahav Lipson*, Zeyu Ma*, Lingjie Mei, Mingzhe Wang, Yiming Zuo, Karhan Kayan, Hongyu Wen, Beining Han, Yihan Wang, Alejandro Newell, Hei Law, Ankit Goyal,
Kaiyu Yang
, Jia Deng
project
·
code
TMLR 2023
Learning Symbolic Rules for Reasoning in Quasi-Natural Language
Kaiyu Yang
, Jia Deng
code
EMNLP 2022
Generating Natural Language Proofs with Verifier-Guided Search
Kaiyu Yang
, Jia Deng, Danqi Chen
code
·
slides
ICML 2022
A Study of Face Obfuscation in ImageNet
Kaiyu Yang
, Jacqueline Yau, Li Fei-Fei, Jia Deng, Olga Russakovsky
project
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code
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talk
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slides
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media
NeurIPS 2020
Strongly Incremental Constituency Parsing with Graph Neural Networks
Kaiyu Yang
, Jia Deng
code
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talk
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slides
NeurIPS 2020
Rel3D: A Minimally Contrastive Benchmark for Grounding Spatial Relations in 3D
Ankit Goyal,
Kaiyu Yang
, Dawei Yang, Jia Deng
code
FAT* 2020
Towards Fairer Datasets: Filtering and Balancing the Distribution of the People Subtree in the ImageNet Hierarchy
Kaiyu Yang
, Klint Qinami, Li Fei-Fei, Jia Deng, Olga Russakovsky
talk
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slides
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blog
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media
ICML 2019
Learning to Prove Theorems via Interacting with Proof Assistants
Kaiyu Yang
, Jia Deng
code
·
slides
ICCV 2019
SpatialSense: An Adversarially Crowdsourced Benchmark for Spatial Relation Recognition
Kaiyu Yang
, Olga Russakovsky, Jia Deng
code
ECCV 2016
Stacked Hourglass Networks for Human Pose Estimation
Alejandro Newell,
Kaiyu Yang
, Jia Deng
code
Open Source
Core developer of:
LeanDojo
— tooling for interacting with Lean from machine learning pipelines
ReProver
— retrieval-augmented theorem prover
Lean Copilot
— LLM inference inside Lean for proof automation
CoqGym
— large-scale learning environment for the Coq proof assistant
Workshops & Tutorials
The 6th Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI
at NeurIPS 2026
(co-organizer)
The 5th Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI
at NeurIPS 2025
(co-organizer)
The 3rd Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI
at NeurIPS 2023
(co-organizer)
Tutorial on Machine Learning for Theorem Proving
at NeurIPS 2023
(co-organizer)
Media
Mathematicians’ Newest Assistants Are Artificially Intelligent
— Scientific American, 2024
Can LLMs Generate Mathematical Proofs that can be Rigorously Checked?
— MarkTechPost, 2023
Exploring the Tradeoff Between Privacy and Algorithm Performance
— Princeton Insights, 2022
Researchers Devise Approach to Reduce Biases in Computer Vision Data Sets
— Princeton Engineering News, 2020
AI Is Biased. Here's How Scientists Are Trying to Fix It
— Wired, 2019
Mentoring
Zhaoyu Li
— PhD student at University of Toronto
Jiacheng Chen
— undergrad at South China University of Technology → PhD student at CUHK
Peiyang Song
— undergrad at UCSB and Caltech → PhD student at CMU
Rahul Chalamala
— undergrad at Caltech → researcher at Together AI
Shixing Yu
— master's student at UT Austin → PhD student at Cornell
Gene Chou
— undergrad at Princeton → PhD student at Cornell
Jacqueline Yau
— master's student at Stanford → PhD student at UIUC
Service
Area Chair
— ECCV 2024, ICML 2025 & 2026, NeurIPS 2026
Reviewer
— ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, JMLR, TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV; NSF panel; ERC Advanced Grant; National Academies proceedings on “AI to Assist Mathematical Reasoning”