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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

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

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

Visuals are valuable tools for teaching math word problems (MWPs), helping young learners interpret textual descriptions into mathematical expressions before solving them. However, creating such visuals is labor-intensive and there is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Junling Wang , Anna Rutkiewicz , April Yi Wang , Mrinmaya Sachan

A math word problem (MWP) is a coherent narrative which reflects the underlying logic of math equations. Successful MWP generation can automate the writing of mathematics questions. Previous methods mainly generate MWP text based on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Tianyang Cao , Shuang Zeng , Xiaodan Xu , Mairgup Mansur , Baobao Chang

Multimodal Language Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate the emerging abilities of "world models" -- interpreting and reasoning about complex real-world dynamics. To assess these abilities, we posit videos are the ideal medium, as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Kaizhi Zheng , Yujie Lu , Wanrong Zhu , Jiachen Li , Yue Fan , Jianfeng Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Lin , William Yang Wang , Lijuan Wang , Xin Eric Wang

Evaluating the reasoning ability of language models (LMs) is complicated by their extensive parametric world knowledge, where benchmark performance often reflects factual recall rather than genuine reasoning. Existing datasets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ken Gu , Advait Bhat , Mike A Merrill , Robert West , Xin Liu , Daniel McDuff , Tim Althoff

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

World models improve a learning agent's ability to efficiently operate in interactive and situated environments. This work focuses on the task of building world models of text-based game environments. Text-based games, or interactive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl

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

With the rapid progress of Multimodal LLMs, evaluating their mathematical reasoning capabilities has become an increasingly important research direction. In particular, visual-textual mathematical reasoning serves as a key indicator of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hao Liang , Linzhuang Sun , Minxuan Zhou , Zirong Chen , Meiyi Qiang , Mingan Lin , Tianpeng Li , Fan Yang , Zenan Zhou , Wentao Zhang

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

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…

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

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

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

Automatically generating high-quality step-by-step solutions to math word problems has many applications in education. Recently, combining large language models (LLMs) with external tools to perform complex reasoning and calculation has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Joy He-Yueya , Gabriel Poesia , Rose E. Wang , Noah D. Goodman

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

The rapid progress in the field of natural language processing (NLP) systems and the expansion of large language models (LLMs) have opened up numerous opportunities in the field of education and instructional methods. These advancements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Avinash Anand , Mohit Gupta , Kritarth Prasad , Navya Singla , Sanjana Sanjeev , Jatin Kumar , Adarsh Raj Shivam , Rajiv Ratn Shah

We provide a dataset that enables the creation of learning agents that can build knowledge graph-based world models of interactive narratives. Interactive narratives -- or text-adventure games -- are partially observable environments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl
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