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Autoformalization Project Achieves 130,000 Lines of Topology in Two Weeks Using LLMs for $100

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PaulHoule

2mo ago· 3 min readenInsight

Summary

A research project has successfully autoformalized 130,000 lines of general topology from the Munkres textbook in just two weeks using LLMs (ChatGPT 5.2 and Claude Sonnet 4.5) at a cost of approximately $100. The project, running since November 2025, has produced 160,000 total lines of formalized topology including major proofs like Urysohn's lemma (3k lines), Urysohn's Metrization theorem (2k lines), and the Tietze extension theorem (10k+ lines). The approach uses a feedback loop between LLMs and the Megalodon proof checker with a core foundational library, suggesting that autoformalization may become easy and ubiquitous in 2026.

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Most of it (about 130k lines) have been done in two weeks, from December 22 to January 4, for an LLM subscription cost of about $100.
The approach is quite simple and cheap: build a long-running feedback loop between an LLM and a reasonably fast proof checker equipped with a core foundational library.
Based on the fast progress, low cost, virtually unknown ITP/library, and the simple setup available to everyone, we believe that (auto)formalization may become quite easy and ubiquitous in 2026.
This includes a 3k-line proof of Urysohn's lemma, a 2k-line proof of Urysohn's Metrization theorem, over 10k-line proof of the Tietze extension theorem, and many more (in total over 1.5k lemmas/theorems).
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This is a brief description of a project that has already autoformalized a large portion of the general topology from the Munkres textbook (which has in total 241 pages in 7 chapters and 39 sections). The project has been running since November 21, 2025 a

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