Tales from a Graph: a Pipeline for Mathematical Problem Generation

Bastien Le Chenadec, Eleonora Kreacic, Mathieu Sibue, Gabriel Mercier, Jannik Brinkmann, Nelson Vadori, Manuela Veloso

Keywords: mathematical reasoning, LLM

Abstract: We present a framework for generating pairs of mathematical and word problems with controllable complexity, where the shared underlying mathematical steps are guaranteed to be correct. Our approach enables controlled studies revealing systematic performance gaps between mathematical and word problem variants, while providing verifiable training signals for reasoning models as each problem pair is based on an underlying graph where each step is solved symbolically.

Submission Number: 3