arXiv Computation and Language

More Capable, Less Faithful: A Multilingual Analysis of Mathematical (Un)Solvability Detection in LLMs

arXiv AI
Jul 8

PluraMath: Extending Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation Beyond High-Resource Languages

arXiv:2607. 05992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mathematical reasoning has become a central task for evaluating and tuning reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet existing benchmarks remain heavily biased toward high-resource languages, with English and Chinese dominating both pre-training corpora and evaluation suites.

By Daryna Dementieva, Nikolay Babakov, Kathy H\"ammerl, Ilseyar Alimova, Jind\v{r}ich Libovick\'y, Shu Okabe, Miras Baisbay, Lukas Edman, Abrorkhon Inomkhujaev, Antonia Karamolegkou, Mateusz Lango, Volkan \"Ozer, Nikola Selic, Subhankar Swain, Tsedeniya Kinfe Temesgen, Galit Bary Weisberg, Alexander Fraser
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

How Well Does Mathematical Reasoning Transfer Across Languages in English-Centric LLMs?

The paper investigates how mathematical reasoning improvements from Reinforcement Post-Training (RPT) in English-centric large language models (LLMs) transfer to other languages. Experiments show that transfer varies greatly depending on the initial model, target language, and training approach, and that stronger English initialization does not guarantee better transfer efficiency. Adding a single parallel language to the training data yields the largest boost, with additional languages providing smaller but consistent gains.

By Wen Yang, Junhong Wu, Chong Li, Chengqing Zong, Jiajun Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 30

MGSM-Pro: A Simple Strategy for Robust Multilingual Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation

arXiv:2601.21225v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models have made substantial progress in mathematical reasoning. However, benchmark development for multilingual evaluation ha...

By Tianyi Xu, Kosei Uemura, Alfred Malengo Kondoro, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman, Ifeoma Okoh, Ganiyat Afolabi, Ayodele Awokoya, David Ifeoluwa Adelani
arXiv AI
Oct 21

Benchmarking Arabic Dialects for Math Problems

arXiv:2610.28607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mathematical reasoning remains underexplored for low-resource languages, including Dialectal Arabic. To bridge this gap, we introduce the DAR-MGSM (D...

By Noor Abo Mokh, Teresa Lynn, Nizar Habash, Ahmed Elshabrawy, Sara Alhajeri, Alaa Elsetohy, Preslav Nakov, Alham Fikri Aji
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

Choosing the Right Language Mode at Inference Time for Multilingual Reliability

The paper investigates how multilingual large language models can be guided to reason more reliably in low- to mid-resource languages by selecting appropriate language modes during inference. Experiments with LLaMA and Qwen models show that using English context can correct errors from non‑English comprehension, but adding redundant bilingual context can cause interference. To balance this trade‑off, the authors propose Reliability‑Aware Adaptive Inference (RAAI), a training‑free test‑time framework that routes prompts based on Expected Calibration Error and gates reasoning with a mid‑layer Risk Index, achieving up to 37.7% accuracy gains and reduced calibration error on low‑resource languages.

By Ekata Mitra, Ameeta Agrawal
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Representation Robustness Under Executable Reasoning Constraints in Large Language Models for Mathematical Problem Solving

arXiv:2607. 20520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated on mathematical problem solving, yet prior work often treats representationally equivalent formulations as interchangeable and conflates reasoning errors with interface failures.

By Sagnik Nath, Edith Aurora Graf, Liang Zhang, Diego Zapata-Rivera