Towards Robust Mathematical Reasoning
Thang Luong, Dawsen Hwang, Hoang H Nguyen, Golnaz Ghiasi, Yuri Chervonyi, Insuk Seo, Junsu Kim, Garrett Bingham
Abstract
Finding the right north-star metrics is highly critical for advancing mathematical reasoning capabilities of foundation models, especially given that existing evaluations are either too easy or only focusing on getting correct short answers. To address these issues, we present IMO-Bench, a suite of advanced reasoning benchmarks that specifically targets the level of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the most prestigious venue for young mathematicians. IMOAnswerBench first tests models on 400 diverse Olympiad problems with verifiable short answers. IMO-ProofBench is the next-level evaluation for proof-writing capabilities, which includes both basic and advanced IMO problems as well as detailed grading guidelines to facilitate automatic grading. These benchmarks played a crucial role in our historic achievement of the gold-level performance at IMO 2025 with Gemini Deep Think (Luong and Lockhart, 2025). Our model achieved 80.0% on IMO-AnswerBench and 65.7% on the advanced IMO-ProofBench, surpassing the best non-Gemini models by large margins of 6.9% and 42.4% respectively. We also showed that autograders built with Gemini reasoning correlate well with human evaluations and construct IMO-GradingBench, with 1000 human gradings on proofs, to enable further progress in automatic evaluation of long-form answers. We hope that IMO-Bench will help the community towards advancing robust mathematical reasoning and release it at https://github.com/google-deepmind/superhuman/imobench.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{emnlp2025_towardsrobustmat,
title = {Towards Robust Mathematical Reasoning},
author = {Thang Luong and Dawsen Hwang and Hoang H Nguyen and Golnaz Ghiasi and Yuri Chervonyi and Insuk Seo and Junsu Kim and Garrett Bingham and Jonathan Lee and Swaroop Mishra and Alex Zhai and Huiyi Hu and Henryk Michalewski and Jimin Kim and Jeonghyun Ahn and Junhwi Bae and Xingyou Song and Trieu Hoang Trinh and Quoc V Le and Junehyuk Jung},
booktitle = {EMNLP 2025},
year = {2025}
}