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Solving math word problems is the task that analyses the relation of quantities and requires an accurate understanding of contextual natural language information. Recent studies show that current models rely on shallow heuristics to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yibin Shen , Qianying Liu , Zhuoyuan Mao , Fei Cheng , Sadao Kurohashi

Optimization problems are prevalent across various scenarios. Formulating and then solving optimization problems described by natural language often requires highly specialized human expertise, which could block the widespread application…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Caigao Jiang , Xiang Shu , Hong Qian , Xingyu Lu , Jun Zhou , Aimin Zhou , Yang Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising capabilities for tackling complex reasoning tasks, including optimization problems. However, existing methods either rely on prompt engineering, which leads to poor generalization across problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Dong Li , Xujiang Zhao , Linlin Yu , Yanchi Liu , Wei Cheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Zhong Chen , Feng Chen , Chen Zhao , Haifeng Chen

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

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

We study the performance of a commercially available large language model (LLM) known as ChatGPT on math word problems (MWPs) from the dataset DRAW-1K. To our knowledge, this is the first independent evaluation of ChatGPT. We found that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Paulo Shakarian , Abhinav Koyyalamudi , Noel Ngu , Lakshmivihari Mareedu

We propose an ensemble approach to predict the labels in linear programming word problems. The entity identification and the meaning representation are two types of tasks to be solved in the NL4Opt competition. We propose the ensembleCRF…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-02 JiangLong He , Mamatha N , Shiv Vignesh , Deepak Kumar , Akshay Uppal

Math word problems (MWPs) is a task that automatically derives solution expression from a giving math problems in text. The previous studies suffer from spurious correlations between input text and output expression. To mitigate this issue,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jing Xiong , Zhongwei Wan , Xiping Hu , Min Yang , Chengming Li

Despite recent advances in large language models, open-source models often struggle to consistently perform well on complex reasoning tasks. Existing ensemble methods, whether applied at the token or output levels, fail to address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Sungjin Park , Xiao Liu , Yeyun Gong , Edward Choi

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed the educational landscape. As current plagiarism detection tools struggle to keep pace with LLMs' rapid advancements, the educational community faces the challenge of assessing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Roy Xie , Chengxuan Huang , Junlin Wang , Bhuwan Dhingra

With the boom of Large Language Models (LLMs), the research of solving Math Word Problem (MWP) has recently made great progress. However, there are few studies to examine the security of LLMs in math solving ability. Instead of attacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zihao Zhou , Qiufeng Wang , Mingyu Jin , Jie Yao , Jianan Ye , Wei Liu , Wei Wang , Xiaowei Huang , Kaizhu Huang

Math Word Problems (MWPs) play a vital role in assessing the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet current research primarily focuses on questions with concise contexts. The impact of longer contexts on mathematical reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Xin Xu , Tong Xiao , Zitong Chao , Zhenya Huang , Can Yang , Yang Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in solving text-based mathematical problems, but they struggle with mathematical diagrams since they are primarily trained on natural scene images. For humans, visual aids generally enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Wenwen Zhuang , Xin Huang , Xiantao Zhang , Jin Zeng

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

During issue resolution, software developers rely on issue reports to discuss solutions for defects, feature requests, and other changes. These discussions contain proposed solutions--from design changes to code implementations--as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Antu Saha , Mehedi Sun , Oscar Chaparro

This paper proposes a Transformer-based model to generate equations for math word problems. It achieves much better results than RNN models when copy and align mechanisms are not used, and can outperform complex copy and align RNN models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Yuanliang Meng , Anna Rumshisky

While forward reasoning (i.e., find the answer given the question) has been explored extensively in recent literature, backward reasoning is relatively unexplored. We examine the backward reasoning capabilities of LLMs on Math Word Problems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Aniruddha Deb , Neeva Oza , Sarthak Singla , Dinesh Khandelwal , Dinesh Garg , Parag Singla

The enhancement of mathematical capabilities in large language models (LLMs) fosters new developments in mathematics education within primary and secondary schools, particularly as they relate to intelligent tutoring systems. However, LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhenquan Shen , Xinguo Yu , Xiaotian Cheng , Rao Peng , Hao Ming

We present ASDiv (Academia Sinica Diverse MWP Dataset), a diverse (in terms of both language patterns and problem types) English math word problem (MWP) corpus for evaluating the capability of various MWP solvers. Existing MWP corpora for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Shen-Yun Miao , Chao-Chun Liang , Keh-Yih Su

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has sparked interest in coding assistants. While general-purpose programming languages are well supported, generating code for domain-specific languages remains a challenging problem for LLMs. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Timo Pierre Schrader , Lukas Lange , Tobias Kaminski , Simon Razniewski , Annemarie Friedrich