OpenAI’s Approach to Solve Math Word Problems

Author(s): Jesus Rodriguez

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A new research paper and dataset look to make progress in one of the toughest areas of deep learning.

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Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/symbolic-mathematics-finally-yields-to-neural-networks-20200520/

Yesterday’s edition of The Sequence highlighted OpenAI latest research to solve math word problems. Today, I would like to dive a bit deeper into the ideas behind this new research.

Mathematical reasoning has long been considered one of the cornerstones of human cognition and one of the main bars to measure the “intelligence” of language models. Take the following problem:

“Anthony had 50 pencils. He gave 1/2 of his pencils to Brandon, and he gave 3/5 of the remaining pencils to Charlie. He kept the remaining pencils. How many pencils… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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