A Survey of Mathematical Reasoning in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Model: Benchmark, Method & Challenges (2025.findings-acl)
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Yibo Yan, Jiamin Su, Jianxiang He, Fangteng Fu, Xu Zheng, Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Kun Wang, Shen Wang, Qingsong Wen, Xuming Hu
| Challenge: | This survey provides **the first comprehensive analysis of mathematical reasoning in the era of multimodal large language models** . integrating large language model with mathematical reasoning tasks is becoming significant as AI advances . |
| Approach: | They review over 200 studies published since 2021 and examine the state-of-the-art developments in Math-LLMs . they identify five major challenges hindering the realization of AGI in this domain . |
| Outcome: | The authors examine the state-of-the-art developments in Math-LLMs with a focus on multimodal settings. |
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