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A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint ...

Star-Math has achieved remarkable benchmarks in mathematical reasoning, showcasing how small AI models can rival larger ...

Researchers also gave children a math test and found that children who scored higher tended to have parents who talked about math more during the observation period.

Phi-4 and an rStar-Math paper suggest that compact, specialized models can provide powerful alternatives to the industry’s largest systems.