Assessing the Impact of Prompting Methods on ChatGPT's Mathematical Capabilities

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Yuhao, Wong, Chloe, Yang, Hanwen, Aguenza, Juan, Bhujangari, Sai, Vu, Benthan, Lei, Xun, Prasad, Amisha, Fluss, Manny, Phuong, Eric, Liu, Minghao, Kumar, Raja, Vats, Vanshika, Davis, James
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author Chen, Yuhao
Wong, Chloe
Yang, Hanwen
Aguenza, Juan
Bhujangari, Sai
Vu, Benthan
Lei, Xun
Prasad, Amisha
Fluss, Manny
Phuong, Eric
Liu, Minghao
Kumar, Raja
Vats, Vanshika
Davis, James
author_facet Chen, Yuhao
Wong, Chloe
Yang, Hanwen
Aguenza, Juan
Bhujangari, Sai
Vu, Benthan
Lei, Xun
Prasad, Amisha
Fluss, Manny
Phuong, Eric
Liu, Minghao
Kumar, Raja
Vats, Vanshika
Davis, James
contents This study critically evaluates the efficacy of prompting methods in enhancing the mathematical reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs). The investigation uses three prescriptive prompting methods - simple, persona, and conversational prompting - known for their effectiveness in enhancing the linguistic tasks of LLMs. We conduct this analysis on OpenAI's LLM chatbot, ChatGPT-3.5, on extensive problem sets from the MATH, GSM8K, and MMLU datasets, encompassing a broad spectrum of mathematical challenges. A grading script adapted to each dataset is used to determine the effectiveness of these prompting interventions in enhancing the model's mathematical analysis power. Contrary to expectations, our empirical analysis reveals that none of the investigated methods consistently improves over ChatGPT-3.5's baseline performance, with some causing significant degradation. Our findings suggest that prompting strategies do not necessarily generalize to new domains, in this study failing to enhance mathematical performance.
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spellingShingle Assessing the Impact of Prompting Methods on ChatGPT's Mathematical Capabilities
Chen, Yuhao
Wong, Chloe
Yang, Hanwen
Aguenza, Juan
Bhujangari, Sai
Vu, Benthan
Lei, Xun
Prasad, Amisha
Fluss, Manny
Phuong, Eric
Liu, Minghao
Kumar, Raja
Vats, Vanshika
Davis, James
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
This study critically evaluates the efficacy of prompting methods in enhancing the mathematical reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs). The investigation uses three prescriptive prompting methods - simple, persona, and conversational prompting - known for their effectiveness in enhancing the linguistic tasks of LLMs. We conduct this analysis on OpenAI's LLM chatbot, ChatGPT-3.5, on extensive problem sets from the MATH, GSM8K, and MMLU datasets, encompassing a broad spectrum of mathematical challenges. A grading script adapted to each dataset is used to determine the effectiveness of these prompting interventions in enhancing the model's mathematical analysis power. Contrary to expectations, our empirical analysis reveals that none of the investigated methods consistently improves over ChatGPT-3.5's baseline performance, with some causing significant degradation. Our findings suggest that prompting strategies do not necessarily generalize to new domains, in this study failing to enhance mathematical performance.
title Assessing the Impact of Prompting Methods on ChatGPT's Mathematical Capabilities
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15006