GSM-8K (CoT)
Grade School Math 8K with Chain-of-Thought prompting, featuring 8.5K high-quality linguistically diverse grade school math word problems requiring multi-step reasoning and elementary arithmetic operations.
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct from Meta currently leads the GSM-8K (CoT) leaderboard with a score of 0.951 across 2 evaluated AI models.
What GSM-8K (CoT) measures
GSM-8K (CoT) is a text benchmark that evaluates large language models on math and reasoning tasks. LLM Stats tracks 2 models on this benchmark, with a maximum possible score of 1. Current average across reported models is 0.9, with the leader reaching 1.0.
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Publication
- Paper
- Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
- Authors
- Karl Cobbe, Vineet Kosaraju, Mohammad Bavarian, Mark Chen, and 8 others
- Published
- arXiv
- 2110.14168
Abstract
State-of-the-art language models can match human performance on many tasks, but they still struggle to robustly perform multi-step mathematical reasoning. To diagnose the failures of current models and support research, we introduce GSM8K, a dataset of 8.5K high quality linguistically diverse grade school math word problems. We find that even the largest transformer models fail to achieve high test performance, despite the conceptual simplicity of this problem distribution. To increase performance, we propose training verifiers to judge the correctness of model completions. At test time, we generate many candidate solutions and select the one ranked highest by the verifier. We demonstrate that verification significantly improves performance on GSM8K, and we provide strong empirical evidence that verification scales more effectively with increased data than a finetuning baseline.
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct leads with 95.1%, followed by Llama 3.1 8B Instruct at 84.5%.
Progress Over Time
Interactive timeline showing model performance evolution on GSM-8K (CoT)
GSM-8K (CoT) Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 70B | — | — | |||
| 2 | 8B | — | — |
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