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Mathematical reasoning would be one of the next frontiers for artificial intelligence to make significant progress. The ongoing surge to solve math word problems (MWPs) and hence achieve better mathematical reasoning ability would continue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Keyur Faldu , Amit Sheth , Prashant Kikani , Manas Gaur , Aditi Avasthi

Math word problem (MWP) serves as a fundamental research topic in artificial intelligence (AI) dating back to 1960s. This research aims to advance the reasoning abilities of AI by mirroring the human-like cognitive intelligence. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhenya Huang , Jiayu Liu , Xin Lin , Zhiyuan Ma , Shangzi Xue , Tong Xiao , Qi Liu , Yee Whye Teh , Enhong Chen

From the latter half of the last decade, there has been a growing interest in developing algorithms for automatically solving mathematical word problems (MWP). It is a challenging and unique task that demands blending surface level text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Sowmya S Sundaram , Sairam Gurajada , Marco Fisichella , Deepak P , Savitha Sam Abraham

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at various tasks, including problem-solving and question-answering. However, LLMs often find Math Word Problems (MWPs) challenging because solving them requires a range of reasoning and mathematical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mitchell Piehl , Dillon Wilson , Ananya Kalita , Jugal Kalita

Developing automatic Math Word Problem (MWP) solvers is a challenging task that demands the ability of understanding and mathematical reasoning over the natural language. Recent neural-based approaches mainly encode the problem text using a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Youyuan Zhang

Automated math word problem solvers based on neural networks have successfully managed to obtain 70-80\% accuracy in solving arithmetic word problems. However, it has been shown that these solvers may rely on superficial patterns to obtain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Abby Newcomb , Jugal Kalita

The problem of designing NLP solvers for math word problems (MWP) has seen sustained research activity and steady gains in the test accuracy. Since existing solvers achieve high performance on the benchmark datasets for elementary level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Arkil Patel , Satwik Bhattamishra , Navin Goyal

We study the problem of generating arithmetic math word problems (MWPs) given a math equation that specifies the mathematical computation and a context that specifies the problem scenario. Existing approaches are prone to generating MWPs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Zichao Wang , Andrew S. Lan , Richard G. Baraniuk

In this paper, we revisit math word problems~(MWPs) from the cross-lingual and multilingual perspective. We construct our MWP solvers over pretrained multilingual language models using sequence-to-sequence model with copy mechanism. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Minghuan Tan , Lei Wang , Lingxiao Jiang , Jing Jiang

Developing automatic Math Word Problem (MWP) solvers has been an interest of NLP researchers since the 1960s. Over the last few years, there are a growing number of datasets and deep learning-based methods proposed for effectively solving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Yihuai Lan , Lei Wang , Qiyuan Zhang , Yunshi Lan , Bing Tian Dai , Yan Wang , Dongxiang Zhang , Ee-Peng Lim

Math Word Problems (MWPs) in online assessments help test the ability of the learner to make critical inferences by interpreting the linguistic information in them. To test the mathematical reasoning capabilities of the learners, sometimes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Mayank Goel , Venktesh V , Vikram Goyal

Solving math word problem (MWP) with AI techniques has recently made great progress with the success of deep neural networks (DNN), but it is far from being solved. We argue that the ability of learning by analogy is essential for an MWP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zihao Zhou , Maizhen Ning , Qiufeng Wang , Jie Yao , Wei Wang , Xiaowei Huang , Kaizhu Huang

The art of mathematical reasoning stands as a fundamental pillar of intellectual progress and is a central catalyst in cultivating human ingenuity. Researchers have recently published a plethora of works centered around the task of solving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Syed Rifat Raiyan , Md. Nafis Faiyaz , Shah Md. Jawad Kabir , Mohsinul Kabir , Hasan Mahmud , Md Kamrul Hasan

Math word problem (MWP) solving aims to understand the descriptive math problem and calculate the result, for which previous efforts are mostly devoted to upgrade different technical modules. This paper brings a different perspective of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yi Bin , Wenhao Shi , Yujuan Ding , Yang Yang , See-Kiong Ng

Math word problems (MWPs) require analyzing text descriptions and generating mathematical equations to derive solutions. Existing works focus on solving MWPs with two types of solvers: tree-based solver and large language model (LLM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jie Yao , Zihao Zhou , Qiufeng Wang

Math word problem (MWP) solving is an important task in question answering which requires human-like reasoning ability. Analogical reasoning has long been used in mathematical education, as it enables students to apply common relational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zhenwen Liang , Jipeng Zhang , Xiangliang Zhang

In this paper, we revisit the solving bias when evaluating models on current Math Word Problem (MWP) benchmarks. However, current solvers exist solving bias which consists of data bias and learning bias due to biased dataset and improper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Zhicheng Yang , Jinghui Qin , Jiaqi Chen , Xiaodan Liang

A practical automatic textual math word problems (MWPs) solver should be able to solve various textual MWPs while most existing works only focused on one-unknown linear MWPs. Herein, we propose a simple but efficient method called Universal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jinghui Qin , Lihui Lin , Xiaodan Liang , Rumin Zhang , Liang Lin

Solutions to math word problems (MWPs) with step-by-step explanations are valuable, especially in education, to help students better comprehend problem-solving strategies. Most existing approaches only focus on obtaining the final correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Mengxue Zhang , Zichao Wang , Zhichao Yang , Weiqi Feng , Andrew Lan

Mathematics is often perceived as a complex subject by students, leading to high failure rates in exams. To improve Mathematics skills, it is important to provide sample questions for students to practice problem-solving. Manually creating…

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