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📝 Editorial: OpenAI New NLP Challenge: Mathematical Reasoning

Mathematical reasoning has long been one of the mystical challenges for ML models. In recent years, we have seen tremendous advances in natural language processing(NLP) with methods such as transformers powering models like GPT-3 that can solve many complex language tasks. However, even those models struggle when presented with multi-step mathematical reasoning problems. Take a simple word math problem such as the following :

“Tim grows 5 trees. Each year he collects 6 lemons from each tree. How many lemons does he get in a decade?”

From an ML perspective, creating a model that solves these types of problems presents some…