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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

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

Solving mathematical word problems (MWPs) automatically is challenging, primarily due to the semantic gap between human-readable words and machine-understandable logics. Despite the long history dated back to the1960s, MWPs have regained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Dongxiang Zhang , Lei Wang , Luming Zhang , Bing Tian Dai , Heng Tao Shen

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

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

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…

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

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

The progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT raises the question of how they can be integrated into education. One hope is that they can support mathematics learning, including word-problem solving. Since LLMs can handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Anselm R. Strohmaier , Wim Van Dooren , Kathrin Seßler , Brian Greer , Lieven Verschaffel

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

This paper investigates the question of what makes math word problems (MWPs) in English challenging for large language models (LLMs). We conduct an in-depth analysis of the key linguistic and mathematical characteristics of MWPs. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 KV Aditya Srivatsa , Ekaterina Kochmar

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

Mathematical reasoning serves as a cornerstone for assessing the fundamental cognitive capabilities of human intelligence. In recent times, there has been a notable surge in the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) geared towards the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Janice Ahn , Rishu Verma , Renze Lou , Di Liu , Rui Zhang , Wenpeng Yin

Large language models (LLMs) are highly effective in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, they are susceptible to producing unreliable conjectures in ambiguous contexts called hallucination. This paper presents a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yuhong Sun , Zhangyue Yin , Qipeng Guo , Jiawen Wu , Xipeng Qiu , Hui Zhao

Math word problems (MWPs) are critical K-12 educational tools, and customizing them to students' interests and ability levels can enhance learning. However, teachers struggle to find time to customize MWPs for students given large class…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bryan R. Christ , Penelope Molitz , Beau LeBlond , Zachary Gottesman , Jonathan Kropko , Thomas Hartvigsen

Math Word Problems (MWP) is an important task that requires the ability of understanding and reasoning over mathematical text. Existing approaches mostly formalize it as a generation task by adopting Seq2Seq or Seq2Tree models to encode an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ailisi Li , Xueyao Jiang , Bang Liu , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao

There is an increasing interest in the use of mathematical word problem (MWP) generation in educational assessment. Different from standard natural question generation, MWP generation needs to maintain the underlying mathematical operations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Tianqiao Liu , Qiang Fang , Wenbiao Ding , Hang Li , Zhongqin Wu , Zitao Liu

Math Word Problem (MWP) solving needs to discover the quantitative relationships over natural language narratives. Recent work shows that existing models memorize procedures from context and rely on shallow heuristics to solve MWPs. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Zhongli Li , Wenxuan Zhang , Chao Yan , Qingyu Zhou , Chao Li , Hongzhi Liu , Yunbo Cao

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

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
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