An Empirical Study on Challenging Math Problem Solving with GPT-4
Authors: name: Yiran Wu; name: Feiran Jia; name: Shaokun Zhang; name: Qingyun Wu; name: Hangyu Li; name: Erkang Zhu; name: Yue Wang; name: Yin Tat Lee; name: Richard Peng; name: Chi Wang
Published: 2023-06-02 08:02:15

Abstract: Employing Large Language Models (LLMs) to address mathematical problems is an
intriguing research endeavor, considering the abundance of math problems
expressed in natural language across numerous science and engineering fields.
While several prior works have investigated solving elementary mathematics
using LLMs, this work explores the frontier of using GPT-4 for solving more
complex and challenging math problems. We evaluate various ways of using GPT-4.
Some of them are adapted from existing work, and one is \MathChat, a
conversational problem-solving framework newly proposed in this work. We
perform the evaluation on difficult high school competition problems from the
MATH dataset, which shows the advantage of the proposed conversational
approach.