FormalGeo: The First Step Toward Human-like IMO-level Geometric Automated Reasoning

This is the first article of our work over the past decade. In this series of papers, we have constructed a complete and compatible formal plane geometry system. This will serve as a crucial bridge between IMO-level plane geometry challenges and readable AI automated reasoning. With this formal system in place, we have been able to seamlessly integrate modern AI models with our formal system. Within this formal framework, AI is now capable of providing deductive reasoning solutions to IMO-level plane geometry problems, just like handling other natural languages, and these proofs are readable, traceable, and verifiable. We propose the geometry formalization theory (GFT) to guide the development of the geometry formal system. Based on the GFT, we have established the FormalGeo, which consists of 88 geometric predicates and 196 theorems. It can represent, validate, and solve IMO-level geometry problems. we also have crafted the FGPS (formal geometry problem solver) in Python. It serves as both an interactive assistant for verifying problem-solving processes and an automated problem solver, utilizing various methods such as forward search, backward search and AI-assisted search. We've annotated the FormalGeo7k dataset, containing 6,981 (expand to 186,832 through data augmentation) geometry problems with complete formal language annotations. Implementation of the formal system and experiments on the FormalGeo7k validate the correctness and utility of the GFT. The backward depth-first search method only yields a 2.42% problem-solving failure rate, and we can incorporate deep learning techniques to achieve lower one. The source code of FGPS and FormalGeo7k dataset are available at https://github.com/BitSecret/FormalGeo.