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An Empirical Study of Data Ability Boundary in LLMs' Math Reasoning

Computation and Language 2024-03-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) are displaying emergent abilities for math reasoning tasks,and there is a growing attention on enhancing the ability of open-source LLMs through supervised fine-tuning (SFT).In this paper, we aim to explore a general data strategy for supervised data to help optimize and expand math reasoning ability.Firstly, we determine the ability boundary of reasoning paths augmentation by identifying these paths' minimal optimal set.Secondly, we validate that different abilities of the model can be cumulatively enhanced by Mix of Minimal Optimal Sets of corresponding types of data, while our models MMOS achieve SOTA performance on series base models under much lower construction costs.Besides, we point out GSM-HARD is not really hard and today's LLMs no longer lack numerical robustness.Also, we provide an Auto Problem Generator for robustness testing and educational applications.Our code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/cyzhh/MMOS.

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@article{arxiv.2403.00799,
  title  = {An Empirical Study of Data Ability Boundary in LLMs' Math Reasoning},
  author = {Zui Chen and Yezeng Chen and Jiaqi Han and Zhijie Huang and Ji Qi and Yi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00799},
  year   = {2024}
}

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33 pages, 5 figures

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