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"U-MATH: A University-Level Benchmark for Evaluating Mathematical Skills in LLMs"

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U-MATH challenges LLMs with real university math problems, exposing their current limitations.

U-MATH introduces a comprehensive university-level mathematical benchmark with 1,100 problems to evaluate LLMs' advanced mathematical reasoning capabilities, including visual elements and a meta-evaluation framework to assess solution judging reliability.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03205

🤔 Original Problem:

→ Current mathematical benchmarks for LLMs are limited to elementary/high-school problems, lack diversity, and don't adequately test visual mathematical reasoning.

→ Existing benchmarks are becoming saturated with GPT-4 achieving over 92% on GSM8K and 80% on MATH.

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🔍 Solution in this Paper:

→ U-MATH provides 1,100 unpublished university-level problems from real teaching materials.

→ Problems span 6 core subjects: Precalculus, Algebra, Differential Calculus, Integral Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, and Sequences & Series.

→ 20% of problems incorporate visual elements like graphs and diagrams.

→ μ-MATH meta-evaluation framework assesses LLMs' ability to judge mathematical solutions.

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💡 Key Insights:

→ LLMs struggle significantly with university-level mathematics, especially visual problems.

→ Specialized math models outperform general-purpose LLMs on text-only problems.

→ Solution assessment remains challenging even for advanced LLMs.

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📊 Results:

→ Best accuracy: 63% on text-based tasks, 45% on visual problems.

→ Top LLM judge achieves 80% F1-score on μ-MATH.

→ Proprietary models outperform open-source ones by 18.5% on visual tasks.

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