CoinMath: Harnessing the Power of Coding Instruction for Math LLM (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in solving mathematical problems, with code-based solutions proving particularly effective. |
| Approach: | They propose a learning strategy to enhance mathematical reasoning by diversifying the coding styles of code-based rationales. |
| Outcome: | The proposed learning strategy outperforms its baseline model, MAmmoTH, which uses code-based solutions. |
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