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Mathematical reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, and whether large language models (LLMs) can meaningfully perform it remains a central question in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. As LLMs are increasingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Linyang He , Qiyao Yu , Hanze Dong , Baohao Liao , Xinxing Xu , Micah Goldblum , Jiang Bian , Nima Mesgarani

Despite strong results on many tasks, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still underperform on visual mathematical problem solving, especially in reliably perceiving and interpreting diagrams. Inspired by human problem-solving, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shuhang Chen , Hangjie Yuan , Yunqiu Xu , Pengwei Liu , Tao Feng , Jun Cen , Zeying Huang , Yi Yang

Solving mathematics problems has been an intriguing capability of large language models, and many efforts have been made to improve reasoning by extending reasoning length, such as through self-correction and extensive long…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Zishun Yu , Tengyu Xu , Di Jin , Karthik Abinav Sankararaman , Yun He , Wenxuan Zhou , Zhouhao Zeng , Eryk Helenowski , Chen Zhu , Sinong Wang , Hao Ma , Han Fang

The application of Transformer-based large models has achieved numerous success in recent years. However, the exponential growth in the parameters of large models introduces formidable memory challenge for edge deployment. Prior works to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xueyuan Han , Zinuo Cai , Yichu Zhang , Chongxin Fan , Junhan Liu , Ruhui Ma , Rajkumar Buyya

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown impressive capabilities in complex problem-solving, often benefiting from training on difficult mathematical problems that stimulate intricate reasoning. Recent efforts have explored automated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qizhi Pei , Zhuoshi Pan , Honglin Lin , Xin Gao , Yu Li , Zinan Tang , Conghui He , Rui Yan , Lijun Wu

LLMs have demonstrated strong mathematical reasoning abilities by leveraging reinforcement learning with long chain-of-thought, yet they continue to struggle with theorem proving due to the lack of clear supervision signals when solely…

Advanced reasoning typically requires Chain-of-Thought prompting, which is accurate but incurs prohibitive latency and substantial test-time inference costs. The standard alternative, fine-tuning smaller models, often sacrifices…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sanket Badhe , Deep Shah

State-of-the-art (SOTA) LLMs have progressed from struggling on proof-based Olympiad problems to solving most of the IMO 2025 problems, with leading systems reportedly handling 5 of 6 problems. Given this progress, we assess how well these…

Recent advances in large reasoning models have leveraged reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) to improve reasoning capabilities. However, scaling these methods typically requires extensive rollout computation and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinyu Tang , Zhenduo Zhang , Yurou Liu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Zujie Wen , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

Prompt design is a critical factor in the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet remains largely heuristic, manual, and difficult to scale. This paper presents the first comprehensive evaluation of Automatic Prompt Optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jayesh Choudhari , Piyush Kumar Singh , Douglas McIlwraith , Snehal Nair

Recent breakthroughs have spurred claims that large language models (LLMs) match gold medal Olympiad to graduate level proficiency on mathematics benchmarks. In this work, we examine these claims in detail and assess the extent to which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Nicole N Khatibi , Daniil A. Radamovich , Michael P. Brenner

As agents operate over long horizons, their memory stores grow continuously, making retrieval critical to accessing relevant information. Many agent queries require reasoning-intensive retrieval, where the connection between query and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sreeja Apparaju , Nilesh Gupta

Leveraging inference-time search in large language models has proven effective in further enhancing a trained model's capability to solve complex mathematical and reasoning problems. However, this approach significantly increases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tianwei Ni , Allen Nie , Sapana Chaudhary , Yao Liu , Huzefa Rangwala , Rasool Fakoor

LLMs have demonstrated strong performance in data-rich domains such as programming, yet their reliability in engineering tasks remains limited. Circuit analysis--requiring multimodal understanding and precise mathematical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liangliang Chen , Weiyu Sun , Huiru Xie , Yongnuo Cai , Ying Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for educational support, yet their response quality varies depending on the language of interaction. This paper presents an automated multilingual pipeline for generating, solving, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mariam Mahran , Katharina Simbeck

We present miniF2F, a dataset of formal Olympiad-level mathematics problems statements intended to provide a unified cross-system benchmark for neural theorem proving. The miniF2F benchmark currently targets Metamath, Lean, Isabelle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Kunhao Zheng , Jesse Michael Han , Stanislas Polu

Model compression is critical for deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained devices. We introduce a novel method enhancing knowledge distillation with integrated gradients (IG) as a data augmentation strategy. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 David E. Hernandez , Jose Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Computing olympiads contain some of the most challenging problems for humans, requiring complex algorithmic reasoning, puzzle solving, in addition to generating efficient code. However, it has been understudied as a domain to evaluate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Quan Shi , Michael Tang , Karthik Narasimhan , Shunyu Yao

Reasoning training incentivizes LLMs to produce long chains of thought (long CoT), which among other things, allows them to explore solution strategies with self-checking. This results in higher accuracy, but inflates context length,…

Test-time compute scaling is a primary axis for improving LLM reasoning. Existing methods primarily scale depth by extending a single reasoning trace. Scaling breadth by sampling multiple candidates in parallel is straightforward, but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shang Zhou , Wenhao Chai , Kaiyuan Liu , Huanzhi Mao , Qiuyang Mang , Jingbo Shang