Learning by Analogy: Diverse Questions Generation in Math Word Problem (2023.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for solving math word problem (MWP) use shortcut learning to train solvers based on samples with a single question. |
| Approach: | They propose to generate diverse yet consistent questions from a common scenario . they then feed the equations to a question generator to obtain the diverse questions . their method leads to performance improvement on the current benchmark Math23K . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method generates diverse yet consistent questions with a variety of equations and questions . it improves on the current benchmark, which is based on the proposed method . |
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