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Poster

Neuro-Symbolic Data Generation for Math Reasoning

Zenan Li · Zhi Zhou · Yuan Yao · Xian Zhang · Yu-Feng Li · Chun Cao · Fan Yang · Xiaoxing Ma

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Thu 12 Dec 11 a.m. PST — 2 p.m. PST

Abstract:

A critical question about Large Language Models (LLMs) is whether their apparent deficiency in mathematical reasoning is inherent, or merely a result of insufficient exposure to high-quality mathematical data. To explore this, we developed an automated method for generating high-quality, supervised mathematical datasets. The method carefully mutates existing math problems, ensuring both diversity and validity of the newly generated problems. This is achieved by a neuro-symbolic data generation framework combining the intuitive informalization strengths of LLMs, and the precise symbolic reasoning of math solvers along with projected Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling in the highly-irregular symbolic space.Empirical experiments demonstrate the high quality of data generated by the proposed method, and that the LLMs, specifically LLaMA-2 and Mistral, when realigned with the generated data, surpass their state-of-the-art counterparts.

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