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Mathematics

MATH organises 12,500 high-school competition problems into seven subjects and five difficulty levels, each with a full worked solution. It underlies much of the later mathematics evaluation work; this catalogue imports the full test split: 5,000 problems across all seven subjects.

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Full text: eligible public problems include text, images and discussion.

History

Dan Hendrycks and collaborators introduced MATH in 2021 to test mathematical problem solving beyond routine word problems. They assembled competition mathematics with worked solutions so that evaluation could address harder reasoning and training could use intermediate steps. EleutherAI maintains the Hugging Face distribution recorded here, whose 2023 publication date is later than the original benchmark.

How it was built

MATH collects 12,500 high-school competition problems with worked solutions, organised into seven subjects and five difficulty levels. The material comes from existing competition problem collections rather than newly generated model outputs. The catalogue contains a 200-problem selection from the algebra test split, whose source contains 1,187 problems; that selection is not the full benchmark.

At a glance

What a problem looks like

A problem statement in LaTeX, with its subject and difficulty level. The worked solution is not part of the prompt.

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How it is scored

The source ships a step-by-step solution with every problem; this catalogue keeps it in restricted storage and never renders it.

Metric: accuracy on the final boxed answer

Reported scores

Evaluation conditions differ between rows, so this is not a ranking. Rows marked vendor are reports by the model’s own organization.

ModelScoreMetricSetupReported bySource
DeepSeek-V3DeepSeek61.6EMBase model; 4-shot.vendor (self-reported)Base Model, Standard Benchmarks, MATH (EM), final column

Why it is hard

The problems are written for students who have the technique and need to choose it. Difficulty is stated per problem, so level 5 items are hard by construction rather than by accident.

Limitations and criticism

Final-answer accuracy does not establish that the reasoning leading to an answer is valid. Answer extraction and equivalence checking can affect whether mathematically equivalent responses receive credit. Public problems and worked solutions create a risk of training exposure. Results on an algebra selection or another reduced subset should be distinguished from results on the full test set.

How much room is left

The recorded vendor report gives DeepSeek-V3 base 61.6 percent exact match with four examples in the prompt. This leaves considerable headroom for that setup, but one base-model report is insufficient to establish the ceiling for stronger reasoning systems. Comparisons need to identify the evaluated subset and whether the model received tools or multiple attempts.

Cite

@article{hendrycks2021math,
  title={Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset},
  author={Dan Hendrycks and Collin Burns and Saurav Kadavath and Akul Arora and Steven Basart and Eric Tang and Dawn Song and Jacob Steinhardt},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03874},
  year={2021}
}

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Tasks

Whole public benchmark.

Public problems
5,000
Formats
math (5,000)
Problems with images
0
Answer availability
Answer published by the source (5,000)
Configs
algebra (1,187) · counting_and_probability (474) · geometry (479) · intermediate_algebra (903) · number_theory (540) · prealgebra (871) · precalculus (546)
Splits
test (5,000)
Awaiting a first discussion
5,000
Problems with a discussion
0
Public contributions
0

Provenance and terms

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  • 21a5633873b6a120296cce3e2df9d5550074f4a3 · acquired 2026-09-23 · release 36bf50fafb02
  • 21a5633873b6a120296cce3e2df9d5550074f4a3 · acquired 2026-09-12 · release ae4d22a7a5ac
  • 21a5633873b6a120296cce3e2df9d5550074f4a3 · acquired 2026-09-12 · release 7febcb3508c0