Augmenting Math Word Problems via Iterative Question Composing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09003v5
• Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:13:03 GMT
• Title: Augmenting Math Word Problems via Iterative Question Composing
• Authors: Haoxiong Liu, Yifan Zhang, Yifan Luo, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao,
• Abstract summary: We introduce the MMIQC dataset, comprising a mixture of processed web data and synthetic question-response pairs.<n>Qwen-72B-MMIQC achieves a 45.0% accuracy, exceeding the previous open-source state-of-the-art by 8.2% and outperforming the initial version GPT-4 released in 2023.
• Score: 7.493665644128088
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Despite the advancements in large language models (LLMs) for mathematical reasoning, solving competition-level math problems remains a significant challenge, especially for open-source LLMs without external tools. We introduce the MMIQC dataset, comprising a mixture of processed web data and synthetic question-response pairs, aimed at enhancing the mathematical reasoning capabilities of base language models. Models fine-tuned on MMIQC consistently surpass their counterparts in performance on the MATH benchmark across various model sizes. Notably, Qwen-72B-MMIQC achieves a 45.0% accuracy, exceeding the previous open-source state-of-the-art by 8.2% and outperforming the initial version GPT-4 released in 2023. Extensive evaluation results on Hungarian high school finals suggest that such improvement can generalize to unseen data. Our ablation study on MMIQC reveals that a large part of the improvement can be attributed to our novel augmentation method, Iterative Question Composing (IQC), which involves iteratively composing new questions from seed problems using an LLM and applying rejection sampling through another LLM.

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