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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

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

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

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

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

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) 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

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

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

It's hard for neural MWP solvers to deal with tiny local variances. In MWP task, some local changes conserve the original semantic while the others may totally change the underlying logic. Currently, existing datasets for MWP task contain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Ailisi Li , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao

Previous neural solvers of math word problems (MWPs) are learned with full supervision and fail to generate diverse solutions. In this paper, we address this issue by introducing a \textit{weakly-supervised} paradigm for learning MWPs. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Yining Hong , Qing Li , Daniel Ciao , Siyuan Huang , Song-Chun Zhu

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 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

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

Compositional generalization refers to a model's capability to generalize to newly composed input data based on the data components observed during training. It has triggered a series of compositional generalization analysis on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunshi Lan , Lei Wang , Jing Jiang , Ee-Peng Lim

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

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

Current math word problem (MWP) solvers are usually Seq2Seq models trained by the (one-problem; one-solution) pairs, each of which is made of a problem description and a solution showing reasoning flow to get the correct answer. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Zhenwen Liang , Jipeng Zhang , Lei Wang , Yan Wang , Jie Shao , Xiangliang Zhang

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

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