Benchmark Almanac

MathQA

Apertus 70B 33.9% Only in system cards

Models answer multiple-choice math word problems drawn from AQuA. Each problem is annotated with an operation program. Scored by accuracy.

Models are often scored by log-likelihood over the options in lm-evaluation-harness.

In the authors’ words

We introduce a large-scale dataset of math word problems and an interpretable neural math problem solver that learns to map problems to operation programs. Due to annotation challenges, current datasets in this domain have been either relatively small in scale or did not offer precise operational annotations over diverse problem types. We introduce a new representation language to model precise operation programs corresponding to each math problem that aim to improve both the performance and the interpretability of the learned models. Using this representation language, our new dataset, MathQA, significantly enhances the AQuA dataset with fully-specified operational programs. We additionally introduce a neural sequence-to-program model enhanced with automatic problem categorization. Our experiments show improvements over competitive baselines in our MathQA as well as the AQuA dataset. The results are still significantly lower than human performance indicating that the dataset poses new challenges for future research. Our dataset is available at: https://math-qa.github.io/math-QA/

Abstract of MathQA: Towards Interpretable Math Word Problem Solving with Operation-Based Formalisms (arXiv:1905.13319, CC0)
Made by University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI Released May 2019 Word problems All tasks public Last in a system card Sep 2025 Last model added Sep 2025
Level
School Students, from grade school to high school
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Multiple choice
1
Model scored in lab cards
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

Apertus 70B leads with 33.9%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

  1. 1 Apertus 70B 33.9%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Apertus 70B 33.9% Sep 2025 Model card

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

Reported by the lab in its model card
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Apertus 70B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Near the ceiling (85%) Apertus 70B

Labs report it only in system cards

We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
17 Sep 2025 Apertus 70B technical report 33.9 MathQA (Table 18) Capabilities

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