MACM

Introdcution

MACM is a system that utilizes multi agents to interact with each other in order to continuously explore potential conditions for solving complex mathematical problems.

MACM extracts conditions and the objective from each math problem, iteratively adds new insights to the known conditions, and repeats this until enough information is gathered to reach a solution.

Compared to the old method of prompting. The advantages of MACM are as follows:

1. Stronger logical reasoning. This is due to the fact that MACM removes the hierarchical structure of previous prompting methods, allowing arbitrary thoughts to be related to each other.

2. Stronger generalization ability. MACM does not need to re-design the prompt for each problem like the old tree of thought or graph of thought. it can be applied to arbitrary mathematical and logical reasoning problems. All the user needs to do is enter the problem and the process is completely automated.

Performance

The experiments were mainly conducted on the MATH dataset, and due to financial constraints, we randomly selected 1/3 of the data in the MATH dataset for the experiments.

Method	Algebra	Counting and Probability	Geometry	Intermediate Algebra	Number Theory	Prealgebra	Precalculus	Overall
I-O	88.24	81.63	45.11	66.67	74.51	81.82	71.15	72.78
CoT	92.99	83.67	42.02	68.07	77.31	82.07	74.18	74.36
SC-CoT	94.96	87.17	50.14	71.99	89.91	86.75	79.67	80.12
MACM	96.07	97.95	62.74	78.43	98.04	94.11	88.46	87.92

Accuracy(%) comparison of GPT-4 Turbo on MATH dataset with different prompting Methods. *Due to financial constraints, we randomly selected 1/3 of the data in the MATH dataset.

The performance comparison of GPT-Turbo with and without MACM on Level 5 problems of the MATH dataset. *Due to financial constraints, we randomly selected 1/3 of the data in the MATH dataset.

Quick Start

1. Install the necessary packages

conda create -n macm python=3.10.11
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Enter your OpenAi Key in the MACM/utils/gpt_robots.py line 3. Enter your question in the MACM/main.py line 158. If you don't enter your question, there will be a Error processing file error.

3. Run

python main.py

Contact

Since there is a certain amount of randomness in the data generated by the LLM, the code may have some potential bugs. If you have any inquiries, please feel free to raise an issue or reach out to [email protected].

Citation

@misc{lei2024macm,
      title={MACM: Utilizing a Multi-Agent System for Condition Mining in Solving Complex Mathematical Problems}, 
      author={Bin Lei¹, Yi Zhang¹, Shan Zuo¹, Ali Payani², Caiwen Ding¹},
      affiliated institution={University of Connecticut¹ & Cisco²}
      year={2024},
      eprint={2404.04735},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.AI}
}

Acknowledgments

Appreciation to Dr. Caiwen Ding for his financial support of this project.