Bryan R Christ — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Math Neurosurgery: Isolating Language Models’ Math Reasoning Abilities Using Only Forward Passes

Bryan R Christ, Zachary Gottesman, Jonathan Kropko, Thomas Hartvigsen

ACL 2025long

Math reasoning is an active area of Large Language Model (LLM) research because it is a hallmark of artificial intelligence and has implications in several domains, including math education. However, few works have explored how math reasoning is encoded within LLM parameters and if it is a skill tha…

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2024

MATHWELL: Generating Educational Math Word Problems Using Teacher Annotations

Bryan R Christ, Jonathan Kropko, Thomas Hartvigsen

EMNLP 2024finding

Math word problems are critical K-8 educational tools, but writing them is time consuming and requires extensive expertise. To be educational, problems must be solvable, have accurate answers, and, most importantly, be educationally appropriate. We propose that language models have potential to supp…

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