GSM8K-V: Can Vision Language Models Solve Grade School Math Word Problems in Visual Contexts

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Autori principali: Yuan, Fan, Yan, Yuchen, Jiang, Yifan, Zhao, Haoran, Feng, Tao, Chen, Jinyan, Lou, Yanwei, Zhang, Wenqi, Shen, Yongliang, Lu, Weiming, Xiao, Jun, Zhuang, Yueting
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author Yuan, Fan
Yan, Yuchen
Jiang, Yifan
Zhao, Haoran
Feng, Tao
Chen, Jinyan
Lou, Yanwei
Zhang, Wenqi
Shen, Yongliang
Lu, Weiming
Xiao, Jun
Zhuang, Yueting
author_facet Yuan, Fan
Yan, Yuchen
Jiang, Yifan
Zhao, Haoran
Feng, Tao
Chen, Jinyan
Lou, Yanwei
Zhang, Wenqi
Shen, Yongliang
Lu, Weiming
Xiao, Jun
Zhuang, Yueting
contents Vision language models (VLMs) achieve unified modeling of images and text, enabling them to accomplish complex real-world tasks through perception, planning, and reasoning. Among these tasks, reasoning is particularly representative, with mathematical reasoning serving as a prominent example. It highlights the high-level capability of VLMs to comprehend mathematical information in images and to perform sophisticated reasoning. Recently, numerous visual mathematical reasoning benchmarks have been proposed, but they are often restricted to geometry, lack coverage of math word problems, and rarely assess reasoning across multiple images. To address these gaps, we introduce GSM8K-V, a purely visual multi-image mathematical reasoning benchmark. GSM8K-V is built by systematically mapping each sample from the widely used text-based GSM8K into visual form. Through a carefully designed automated image-generation pipeline combined with meticulous human annotation, we curate 1,319 high-quality samples. We evaluate a wide range of open-source and closed-source models on GSM8K-V. Results show that although existing VLMs have nearly saturated performance on text-based GSM8K, there remains substantial room for improvement on GSM8K-V. For example, the best-performing model, Gemini-2.5-Pro, achieves 95.22% accuracy on GSM8K but only 46.93% on GSM8K-V. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of GSM8K-V, examining the limitations of current models as well as potential directions for improvement. GSM8K-V offers a new perspective on visual mathematical reasoning and establishes a benchmark to guide the development of more robust and generalizable VLMs.
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spellingShingle GSM8K-V: Can Vision Language Models Solve Grade School Math Word Problems in Visual Contexts
Yuan, Fan
Yan, Yuchen
Jiang, Yifan
Zhao, Haoran
Feng, Tao
Chen, Jinyan
Lou, Yanwei
Zhang, Wenqi
Shen, Yongliang
Lu, Weiming
Xiao, Jun
Zhuang, Yueting
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Vision language models (VLMs) achieve unified modeling of images and text, enabling them to accomplish complex real-world tasks through perception, planning, and reasoning. Among these tasks, reasoning is particularly representative, with mathematical reasoning serving as a prominent example. It highlights the high-level capability of VLMs to comprehend mathematical information in images and to perform sophisticated reasoning. Recently, numerous visual mathematical reasoning benchmarks have been proposed, but they are often restricted to geometry, lack coverage of math word problems, and rarely assess reasoning across multiple images. To address these gaps, we introduce GSM8K-V, a purely visual multi-image mathematical reasoning benchmark. GSM8K-V is built by systematically mapping each sample from the widely used text-based GSM8K into visual form. Through a carefully designed automated image-generation pipeline combined with meticulous human annotation, we curate 1,319 high-quality samples. We evaluate a wide range of open-source and closed-source models on GSM8K-V. Results show that although existing VLMs have nearly saturated performance on text-based GSM8K, there remains substantial room for improvement on GSM8K-V. For example, the best-performing model, Gemini-2.5-Pro, achieves 95.22% accuracy on GSM8K but only 46.93% on GSM8K-V. We conduct a comprehensive analysis of GSM8K-V, examining the limitations of current models as well as potential directions for improvement. GSM8K-V offers a new perspective on visual mathematical reasoning and establishes a benchmark to guide the development of more robust and generalizable VLMs.
title GSM8K-V: Can Vision Language Models Solve Grade School Math Word Problems in Visual Contexts
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25160