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MathFormer: Testing whether symbolic math is pattern matching or reasoning [D]

Via r/MachineLearning
Saturday, Jun 27, 2026 ยท 6:57PM
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Repo link and results - https://github.com/Abhinand20/MathFormer Task: Given a factorized expression like (7-3*z)*(-5*z-9), predict the expanded form -> 15*z\*2-8\*z-63 Key takeaway: A tiny (4M param) seq2seq model trained with no math knowledge reaches ~98.6% accuracy on symbolic math tasks, sugges

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