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PluraMath: Extending Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation Beyond High-Resource Languages

arXiv:2607.0599218.3Has Code
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For researchers and developers of multilingual LLMs, PluraMath provides a benchmark to evaluate and improve mathematical reasoning in low-resource languages, addressing a critical gap in current evaluation suites.

PluraMath extends mathematical reasoning evaluation to 18 underrepresented languages across 6 language families, revealing a persistent performance gap between high-resource and underrepresented languages in LLMs, with stronger results linked to instruction-following ability.

Mathematical reasoning has become a central task for evaluating and tuning reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs), yet existing benchmarks remain heavily biased toward high-resource languages, with English and Chinese dominating both pre-training corpora and evaluation suites. The recently released PolyMath (Wang et al., 2025) dataset represents a significant step forward, yet its coverage is still limited to 18 only high-resource languages. To address this gap, we introduce PluraMath, an extension of PolyMath to 18 additional {underrepresented languages spanning 6 language families -- ranging from mid-resource to extreme low-resource settings. We constructed the dataset through a human-curated pipeline, where native speakers thoroughly validated pre-computed translations. Using PluraMath, we then benchmark 27 reasoning LLMs across four model scales -- small, mid-size, large, and closed-source ensembles -- probing the multilingual mathematical reasoning capabilities of state-of-the-art models under diverse linguistic conditions. Our fine-grained analysis confirms a persistent gap in mathematical reasoning performance between high-resource and underrepresented languages, with stronger results largely associated with better instruction-following ability. We fully open-source our dataset, data acquisition pipeline, and evaluation framework, with the goal of lowering the barrier to multilingual benchmark development for underrepresented communities.

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