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Solving algebra story problems remains a challenging task in artificial intelligence, which requires a detailed understanding of real-world situations and a strong mathematical reasoning capability. Previous neural solvers of math word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yining Hong , Qing Li , Ran Gong , Daniel Ciao , Siyuan Huang , Song-Chun Zhu

Math word problem (MWP) solving faces a dilemma in number representation learning. In order to avoid the number representation issue and reduce the search space of feasible solutions, existing works striving for MWP solving usually replace…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Zhenwen Liang , Jipeng Zhang , Lei Wang , Wei Qin , Yunshi Lan , Jie Shao , Xiangliang Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven their worth across a diverse spectrum of disciplines. LLMs have shown great potential in Procedural Content Generation (PCG) as well, but directly generating a level through a pre-trained LLM is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Muhammad U. Nasir , Steven James , Julian Togelius

Large language models (LLMs) are known to struggle with complicated reasoning tasks such as math word problems (MWPs). In this paper, we present how analogy from similarly structured questions can improve LLMs' problem-solving capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaocong Yang , Jiacheng Lin , Ziqi Wang , Chengxiang Zhai

Employing Large Language Models (LLMs) to address mathematical problems is an intriguing research endeavor, considering the abundance of math problems expressed in natural language across numerous science and engineering fields. LLMs, with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yiran Wu , Feiran Jia , Shaokun Zhang , Hangyu Li , Erkang Zhu , Yue Wang , Yin Tat Lee , Richard Peng , Qingyun Wu , Chi Wang

Solving math word problems is a challenging task that requires accurate natural language understanding to bridge natural language texts and math expressions. Motivated by the intuition about how human generates the equations given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Ting-Rui Chiang , Yun-Nung Chen

Math word problems form a natural abstraction to a range of quantitative reasoning problems, such as understanding financial news, sports results, and casualties of war. Solving such problems requires the understanding of several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Subhro Roy , Dan Roth

We introduce a novel task consisting in assigning a proof to a given mathematical statement. The task is designed to improve the processing of research-level mathematical texts. Applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Maximin Coavoux , Shay B. Cohen

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted for a variety of tasks with implicit graphical structures, such as planning in robotics, multi-hop question answering or knowledge probing, structured commonsense reasoning, and more.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Heng Wang , Shangbin Feng , Tianxing He , Zhaoxuan Tan , Xiaochuang Han , Yulia Tsvetkov

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

Mathematical questioning is crucial for assessing students problem-solving skills. Since manually creating such questions requires substantial effort, automatic methods have been explored. Existing state-of-the-art models rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Phuoc Pham Van Long , Duc Anh Vu , Nhat M. Hoang , Xuan Long Do , Anh Tuan Luu

Math word problems are critical K-8 educational tools, but writing them is time consuming and requires extensive expertise. To be educational, problems must be solvable, have accurate answers, and, most importantly, be educationally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Bryan R Christ , Jonathan Kropko , Thomas Hartvigsen

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become ubiquitous, with abundant applications in computational creativity. One such application is fictional story generation. Fiction is a narrative that occurs in a story world that is slightly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Aisha Khatun , Daniel G. Brown

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

We evaluate the reasoning abilities of large language models in multilingual settings. We introduce the Multilingual Grade School Math (MGSM) benchmark, by manually translating 250 grade-school math problems from the GSM8K dataset (Cobbe et…

Recently, there has been growing interest in leveraging large language models (LLMs) to generate symbolic world models from textual descriptions. Although LLMs have been extensively explored in the context of world modeling, prior studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Mengkang Hu , Tianxing Chen , Yude Zou , Yuheng Lei , Qiguang Chen , Ming Li , Yao Mu , Hongyuan Zhang , Wenqi Shao , Ping Luo

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

To ensure that math curriculum is grade-appropriate and aligns with critical skills or concepts in accordance with educational standards, pedagogical experts can spend months carefully reviewing published math problems. Drawing inspiration…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Li Lucy , Tal August , Rose E. Wang , Luca Soldaini , Courtney Allison , Kyle Lo

The concept of world models has garnered significant attention due to advancements in multimodal large language models such as GPT-4 and video generation models such as Sora, which are central to the pursuit of artificial general…

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