Mathematical Reasoning With Instruction Tuning

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Mistral's mixture-of-experts model with 176B total parameters.

Unique: Achieves 90.8% on GSM8K through instruction-tuning that teaches explicit step-by-step mathematical reasoning, with majority voting over 8 samples. This approach trades inference cost (8x sampling) for accuracy, making it suitable for applications where reasoning transparency is valued over single-sample speed.

vs others: Strong grade-school math performance (90.8% GSM8K) comparable to GPT-3.5-turbo; weaker on competition-level math (44.6% MATH) than GPT-4 or specialized math models; open-source licensing enables fine-tuning for domain-specific math tasks.

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Meta's 70B open model matching 405B-class performance.

Unique: Achieves strong mathematical reasoning performance at 70B parameters through instruction-tuning on mathematical problem-solving datasets, enabling competitive MATH benchmark performance without specialized symbolic reasoning modules

vs others: Provides mathematical reasoning capability comparable to larger closed-source models while remaining open-weight and self-hostable, though without formal verification guarantees of symbolic math systems

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DeepSeek's 236B MoE model specialized for code.

Unique: Trained on 6 trillion tokens including mathematical reasoning datasets and code-based solutions, enabling both symbolic reasoning and code generation for mathematical problems in a single model without separate math-specific components

vs others: Provides integrated mathematical reasoning and code generation (unlike Copilot which focuses on code) while maintaining open-source weights and supporting local deployment

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Largest open-weight model at 405B parameters.

Unique: 405B parameter scale enables 96.8% GSM8K performance through learned chain-of-thought patterns in transformer architecture, achieving near-human accuracy on grade-school math without external symbolic engines or calculators

vs others: Larger model scale than most open-source alternatives improves mathematical reasoning accuracy; however, lacks symbolic verification that specialized math engines provide, making it suitable for reasoning tasks but not formal proofs

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01.AI's bilingual 34B model with 200K context option.

Unique: Achieves competitive mathematical reasoning through general-purpose transformer pretraining without documented chain-of-thought training or specialized math fine-tuning, suggesting strong mathematical pattern learning from raw pretraining data. Supports both English and Chinese mathematical notation and problem-solving.

vs others: Delivers competitive math performance at 34B scale without specialized training overhead, reducing model size and inference cost while maintaining reasonable mathematical reasoning for educational and problem-solving applications.

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Alibaba's 72B open model trained on 18T tokens.

Unique: Integrates three distinct reasoning paradigms (CoT for symbolic reasoning, PoT for code-based computation, TIR for external tool orchestration) within single 72B dense model, enabling flexible problem-solving strategies without model switching. 128K context window allows full problem histories and solution verification within single inference call.

vs others: Outperforms Llama 2 70B (significantly lower math performance) and matches Llama 3 70B on general benchmarks while offering specialized math reasoning patterns; Qwen2.5-Math 72B variant provides deeper specialization but general-purpose 72B enables seamless math-to-code-to-text transitions without model switching.

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8.5K grade school math problems — multi-step reasoning, verifiable solutions, reasoning benchmark.

Unique: Uses linguistically diverse, human-authored grade school problems (not synthetic) that require genuine multi-step reasoning with basic arithmetic, combined with a standardized answer extraction format (#### delimiter) that enables reproducible evaluation across heterogeneous model outputs

vs others: More challenging than simple arithmetic benchmarks (requires 2-8 reasoning steps) yet more accessible than advanced math benchmarks, making it ideal for measuring practical reasoning improvements in production models

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671B MoE model matching GPT-4o at fraction of training cost.

Unique: Achieves 90.2% on MATH benchmark through MoE architecture that routes mathematical reasoning tokens through specialized expert parameters, enabling efficient scaling of reasoning capability without proportional increase in active parameters per token

vs others: Matches GPT-4o mathematical reasoning performance (90.2% MATH) while using 37B active parameters vs GPT-4o's undisclosed parameter count, reducing inference latency and cost for math-heavy workloads

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text-generation model by undefined. 1,37,84,608 downloads.

Unique: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct includes explicit training on mathematical reasoning datasets (including GSM8K, MATH, and proprietary datasets) with emphasis on showing intermediate steps and justifying answers. The instruction-tuning includes prompts that encourage the model to 'think step by step' and 'show your work', which are known to improve mathematical reasoning through in-context learning effects.

vs others: Outperforms base Qwen2.5-7B on mathematical reasoning benchmarks by 15-20% due to instruction-tuning; more accessible than specialized math models (like Minerva) for general-purpose deployment

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Cost-efficient reasoning model with configurable effort levels.

Unique: Implements specialized mathematical reasoning patterns with step-by-step derivation generation, achieving competition-level math performance through domain-specific training rather than general reasoning

vs others: Matches o3 on mathematical benchmarks at lower cost; outperforms standard LLMs (GPT-4, Claude) on competition-level problems due to reasoning-grade capabilities

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Unique: Evaluates mathematical reasoning with 1-5 quality scale for reasoning steps rather than binary correctness, enabling partial credit for correct methodology with computational errors. Combines final answer accuracy with reasoning quality assessment to capture mathematical thinking capability. Includes multi-step reasoning problems and logical inference tasks beyond simple arithmetic.

vs others: More nuanced mathematical assessment than MMLU (binary correctness) and captures reasoning quality vs answer-only evaluation

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Mistral Large — powerful reasoning and instruction-following

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Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3.1) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 70B instruct-tuned version is optimized for high quality dialogue usecases. It has demonstrated strong...

Unique: Instruction-tuned on datasets containing explicit reasoning traces (e.g., math solutions with working, logic puzzles with step-by-step explanations), enabling the model to learn to generate intermediate reasoning as a learned behavior rather than relying on prompt engineering alone.

vs others: More reliable than base models at producing coherent reasoning chains; comparable to GPT-4 on standard benchmarks but with lower latency and cost, though may underperform on novel reasoning patterns not well-represented in training data.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s state-of-the-art AI model designed for advanced reasoning, coding, mathematics, and scientific tasks. It employs “thinking” capabilities, enabling it to reason through responses with enhanced accuracy...

Unique: Leverages extended internal reasoning to explore multiple mathematical approaches and verify symbolic manipulations before responding, providing higher confidence in mathematical correctness than models without reasoning capabilities.

vs others: Exceeds GPT-4 and Claude on complex mathematics by using internal reasoning to validate symbolic steps, reducing hallucinated solutions and improving explanation quality for educational use cases.

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Meta's latest class of model (Llama 3) launched with a variety of sizes & flavors. This 70B instruct-tuned version was optimized for high quality dialogue usecases. It has demonstrated strong...

Unique: Instruction-tuning explicitly optimizes for chain-of-thought reasoning patterns, enabling the model to articulate intermediate steps and self-correct. 70B scale provides sufficient capacity for multi-step reasoning without losing coherence.

vs others: Better reasoning transparency than smaller models and comparable to GPT-4 on many reasoning tasks at lower cost, though specialized reasoning models or symbolic solvers may outperform on highly constrained domains like formal mathematics.

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UGI-Leaderboard — AI demo on HuggingFace

Unique: Isolates mathematical reasoning as a distinct evaluation dimension on the leaderboard, enabling models to be ranked separately on math vs general generation, revealing capability specialization.

vs others: Simpler than running MATH or GSM8K locally with custom evaluation scripts, but less transparent than open-source math benchmarks regarding problem selection and difficulty.

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GLM 4 32B is a cost-effective foundation language model. It can efficiently perform complex tasks and has significantly enhanced capabilities in tool use, online search, and code-related intelligent tasks. It...

Unique: GLM 4 32B includes specialized training on mathematical reasoning datasets, enabling it to show work and explain reasoning — not just generate answers — which is critical for educational and verification use cases

vs others: More cost-effective than Wolfram Alpha for symbolic reasoning while providing better explanations than calculators, though less precise than dedicated symbolic engines for complex expressions

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This is Mistral AI's flagship model, Mistral Large 2 (version mistral-large-2407). It's a proprietary weights-available model and excels at reasoning, code, JSON, chat, and more. Read the launch announcement [here](https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-2407/)....

Unique: Trained on mathematical datasets with chain-of-thought reasoning to prioritize step-by-step problem solving, using attention mechanisms that track variable relationships and equation transformations

vs others: Comparable to GPT-4 on mathematical reasoning, while maintaining lower cost; outperforms Llama 2 on complex multi-step problems due to larger parameter count and specialized training

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Hermes 4 70B is a hybrid reasoning model from Nous Research, built on Meta-Llama-3.1-70B. It introduces the same hybrid mode as the larger 405B release, allowing the model to either...

Unique: Trained on mathematical problem datasets with explicit step-by-step annotations, enabling the model to generate intermediate steps that match human problem-solving patterns rather than jumping directly to answers

vs others: More transparent than Wolfram Alpha for showing reasoning steps, though less reliable for advanced mathematics; stronger than GPT-3.5 on symbolic manipulation due to larger parameter count

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Mistral's official instruct fine-tuned version of [Mixtral 8x22B](/models/mistralai/mixtral-8x22b). It uses 39B active parameters out of 141B, offering unparalleled cost efficiency for its size. Its strengths include: - strong math, coding,...

Unique: Combines sparse MoE routing with instruction fine-tuning specifically optimized for mathematical reasoning, allowing different experts to specialize in algebra, calculus, statistics, and logic domains while maintaining unified instruction-following interface.

vs others: Outperforms GPT-3.5 on mathematical reasoning benchmarks while being significantly cheaper, though slightly behind GPT-4 on advanced symbolic manipulation tasks.