The Role of Visual Modality in Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning: Challenges and Insights (2025.acl-long)
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Yufang Liu, Yao Du, Tao Ji, Jianing Wang, Yang Liu, Yuanbin Wu, Aimin Zhou, Mengdi Zhang, Xunliang Cai
| Challenge: | Existing models that leverage visual information do not improve math reasoning performance . authors suggest that visual information is important for multimodal reasoning . |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset to require image reliance for problem-solving and challenge models with similar, yet distinct, images that change the correct answer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performance is unaffected by changes to or removal of images in the dataset. |
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