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Mathematical reasoning remains one of the most challenging domains for large language models (LLMs), requiring not only linguistic understanding but also structured logical deduction and numerical precision. While recent LLMs demonstrate…

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We summarize math search engines and search interfaces produced by the Document and Pattern Recognition Lab in recent years, and in particular the min math search interface and the Tangent search engine. Source code for both systems are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Richard Zanibbi , Awelemdy Orakwue

Mathematical problem-solving is a key field in artificial intelligence (AI) and a critical benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of large language models (LLMs). While extensive research has focused on mathematical problem-solving, most…

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Literature search questions, such as "Where can I find research on the evaluation of consistency in generated summaries?" pose significant challenges for modern search engines and retrieval systems. These questions often require a deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Anirudh Ajith , Mengzhou Xia , Alexis Chevalier , Tanya Goyal , Danqi Chen , Tianyu Gao

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to materials science questions, including literature comprehension, property prediction, materials discovery and alloy design. At the same time, a wide range of physics-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-17 Siyu Liu , Bo Hu , Beilin Ye , Jiamin Xu , David J. Srolovitz , Tongqi Wen

With the rapid progress of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), AI already performs well at literature retrieval and certain reasoning tasks, serving as a capable assistant to human researchers, yet it remains far from autonomous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Rongjin Li , Zichen Tang , Xianghe Wang , Xinyi Hu , Zhengyu Wang , Zhengyu Lu , Yiling Huang , Jiayuan Chen , Weisheng Tan , Jiacheng Liu , Zhongjun Yang , Haihong E

Analytical information needs, such as trend analysis and causal impact assessment, are prevalent across various domains including law, finance, science, and much more. However, existing information retrieval paradigms, whether based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yiteng Tu , Shuo Miao , Weihang Su , Yiqun Liu , Qingyao Ai

Scientific innovation relies on detailed workflows, which include critical steps such as analyzing literature, generating ideas, validating these ideas, interpreting results, and inspiring follow-up research. However, scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xingjian Zhang , Yutong Xie , Jin Huang , Jinge Ma , Zhaoying Pan , Qijia Liu , Ziyang Xiong , Tolga Ergen , Dongsub Shim , Honglak Lee , Qiaozhu Mei

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance on knowledge-intensive tasks, yet they often struggle with multi-step reasoning due to the unstructured nature of retrieved context. While retrieval-augmented generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Pengcheng Jiang , Lang Cao , Ruike Zhu , Minhao Jiang , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaming Shen , Jimeng Sun , Jiawei Han

Mathematical reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence and is applicable in various fields, including science, engineering, finance, and everyday life. The development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of solving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Pan Lu , Liang Qiu , Wenhao Yu , Sean Welleck , Kai-Wei Chang

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…

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Existing benchmarks for evaluating mathematical reasoning in large language models (LLMs) rely primarily on competition problems, formal proofs, or artificially challenging questions -- failing to capture the nature of mathematics…

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Mathematics is a highly specialized domain with its own unique set of challenges. Despite this, there has been relatively little research on natural language processing for mathematical texts, and there are few mathematical language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jacob Collard , Valeria de Paiva , Eswaran Subrahmanian

Formal mathematical reasoning remains a critical challenge for artificial intelligence, hindered by limitations of existing benchmarks in scope and scale. To address this, we present FormalMATH, a large-scale Lean4 benchmark comprising…

We present ModelTables, a benchmark of tables in Model Lakes that captures the structured semantics of performance and configuration tables often overlooked by text only retrieval. The corpus is built from Hugging Face model cards, GitHub…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhengyuan Dong , Victor Zhong , Renée J. Miller

With over 200 million published academic documents and millions of new documents being written each year, academic researchers face the challenge of searching for information within this vast corpus. However, existing retrieval systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Gengchen Wei , Xinle Pang , Tianning Zhang , Yu Sun , Xun Qian , Chen Lin , Han-Sen Zhong , Wanli Ouyang

Mathematical notation, i.e., the writing system used to communicate concepts in mathematics, encodes valuable information for a variety of information search and retrieval systems. Yet, mathematical notations remain mostly unutilized by…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Andre Greiner-Petter , Moritz Schubotz , Fabian Mueller , Corinna Breitinger , Howard S. Cohl , Akiko Aizawa , Bela Gipp

In mathematics, LaTeX is the de facto standard to prepare documents, e.g., scientific publications. While some formulae are still developed using pen and paper, more complicated mathematical expressions used more and more often with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-01 André Greiner-Petter

Mathematical text is written using a combination of words and mathematical expressions. This combination, along with a specific way of structuring sentences makes it challenging for state-of-art NLP tools to understand and reason on top of…

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Systematic reviews are crucial for synthesizing scientific evidence but remain labor-intensive, especially when extracting detailed methodological information. Large language models (LLMs) offer potential for automating methodological…

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