Challenge: Existing MWP solvers do not handle variants that can be derived via mathematical manipulation.
Approach: They propose a non-autoregressive solver to present a solution expression and decode it from a given problem description.
Outcome: The proposed solver is able to decode multiple expression variants and correct them . it is based on a unified tree structure and is available on Math23K and MAWPS.

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