Automatically Generating Hard Math Problems from Hypothesis-Driven Error Analysis

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Automatically generating hard math problems for LLMs using hypothesis-driven error analysis

advanced Published 7 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Identify error-prone math concepts and skills in LLMs through hypothesis-driven error analysis
  2. Develop an automatic benchmark generation method to create new math problems targeting these areas
  3. Evaluate LLMs using the generated benchmarks to assess their mathematical capabilities and identify areas for improvement
  4. Refine the benchmark generation method based on the evaluation results to create more challenging and relevant problems
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ML researchers and AI engineers can benefit from this approach to improve LLMs' mathematical capabilities and identify error-prone areas, while data scientists can utilize the generated benchmarks to evaluate model performance

Key Insight

💡 Hypothesis-driven error analysis can be used to identify error-prone math concepts and skills in LLMs and generate targeted benchmarks to improve their mathematical capabilities

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Automatically generating hard math problems for LLMs using hypothesis-driven error analysis

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Title: Automatically Generating Hard Math Problems from Hypothesis-Driven Error Analysis

Abstract:
arXiv:2604.04386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Numerous math benchmarks exist to evaluate LLMs' mathematical capabilities. However, most involve extensive manual effort and are difficult to scale. Consequently, they cannot keep pace with LLM development or easily provide new instances to mitigate overfitting. Some researchers have proposed automatic benchmark generation methods, but few focus on identifying the specific math concepts and skills on which LLMs are error-prone, and most can only g
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