The frontier of mathematics is defined by problems whose solutions are not yet known, yet it remains unclear whether language models can meaningfully engage with such problems without human intervention. A major obstacle is the lack of large-scale research-level math datasets. To this end, we introduce ResearchMath-14k, a set of 14,056 problems curated from academic sources via a multi-agent pipeline, making it the largest collection of research-level mathematical problems to date. We further generate ResearchMath-Reasoning, 220K teacher trajectories from two open models, where we observe recurring avoidance behaviors such as non-attempts and fabricated references. Interestingly, across eight open-weight models, newer generations produce 5.6× more references and 5.0× more fake references per trace. After agentic filtering of ResearchMath-Reasoning, fine-tuning Qwen3 models from 4B to 30B parameters improves over base models by 9.2 points on average. This shows that filtered open-problem attempts can provide useful supervision even without fully correct reasoning traces. We make ResearchMath-14k publicly available for future works on research-level mathematical reasoning.
@article{arxiv.2605.28003,
title = {ResearchMath-14K: Scaling Research-Level Mathematics via Agents},
author = {Guijin Son and Seungyeop Yi and Minju Gwak and Hyunwoo Ko and Wongi Jang and Youngjae Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28003},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Work in progress. Dataset available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/amphora/ResearchMath-14k