Benchmark Almanac

TheoremQA

Qwen2-72B 44.4% leads since Jun 2024 Dropped

Models solve 800 university-level questions in math, physics, EE and CS, and finance that each need a specific theorem. Scored by answer accuracy.

In the authors’ words

The recent LLMs like GPT-4 and PaLM-2 have made tremendous progress in solving fundamental math problems like GSM8K by achieving over 90% accuracy. However, their capabilities to solve more challenging math problems which require domain-specific knowledge (i.e. theorem) have yet to be investigated. In this paper, we introduce TheoremQA, the first theorem-driven question-answering dataset designed to evaluate AI models' capabilities to apply theorems to solve challenging science problems. TheoremQA is curated by domain experts containing 800 high-quality questions covering 350 theorems (e.g. Taylor's theorem, Lagrange's theorem, Huffman coding, Quantum Theorem, Elasticity Theorem, etc) from Math, Physics, EE&CS, and Finance. We evaluate a wide spectrum of 16 large language and code models with different prompting strategies like Chain-of-Thoughts and Program-of-Thoughts. We found that GPT-4's capabilities to solve these problems are unparalleled, achieving an accuracy of 51% with Program-of-Thoughts Prompting. All the existing open-sourced models are below 15%, barely surpassing the random-guess baseline. Given the diversity and broad coverage of TheoremQA, we believe it can be used as a better benchmark to evaluate LLMs' capabilities to solve challenging science problems. The data and code are released in https://github.com/wenhuchen/TheoremQA.

Abstract of TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering dataset (arXiv:2305.12524, CC0)
Made by University of Waterloo (TIGER-AI-Lab) Released May 2023 Science questions All tasks public Last in a launch post Sep 2024 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Sep 2024
Level
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
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Models scored in lab cards
2
Launch posts list it, from 1 lab
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System card reports it, from 1 lab

Qwen2-72B leads with 44.4%

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 Qwen2-72B 44.4%
  2. 2 Qwen2.5-72B 42.4%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen2-72B 44.4% Jun 2024 Model card
2 Qwen2.5-72B 42.4% Sep 2024 Model card

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Qwen
Lab claims Not tested since Sep 2024
Qwen2-72B 44.4%

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% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen2-72B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen2-72B

No launch post has listed it since Sep 2024

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Qwen
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
19 Sep 2024 Qwen2.5-72B 42.4 Theoremqa
7 Jun 2024 Qwen2-72B 44.4 TheroemQA

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
15 Jul 2024 Qwen2-72B technical report 44.4 Theorem QA, Qwen2-72B-Instruct (Table 6) Capabilities

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