Process-level tests expose distinct mathematical agent capabilities in LLMs

The benchmark separately evaluates planning, action, and feedback across textual and multimodal mathematical tasks.

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Jiayi Kuang · Yinghui Li · Yunze Song · Keyu Chen · Zhifeng Shen · Yangning Li · +8 more

Sun Yat-sen University · Tencent Youtu Lab · University of Illinois Chicago

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Process-level benchmarks reveal that LLMs with equal end-to-end accuracy can have very different agentic mathematical capability profiles.

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The evaluates LLMs at the process level rather than only checking final answers. It organizes agentic mathematical problem solving into reusable atomic capabilities, then creates planning, action, and feedback tasks across textual and multimodal settings. Trajectories are synthesized automatically, and controlled LLM rewriting produces fine-grained annotations.

The key result is that final-answer accuracy can be misleading: models with similar end-to-end accuracy can show markedly different profiles of planning, action, and feedback ability. This makes more useful for diagnosing where models fail and for guiding work on more robust mathematical agents.

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