Benchmark Almanac

TheoremQA

Qwen2-72B 44.4% leads since June 2024
GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 48.4% leads since April 2024
GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 48.4% leads since April 2024
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Models solve 800 university-level questions in math, physics, EE and CS, and finance that each need a specific theorem. Scored by answer accuracy.

Released
May 2023
Kind
Science questions
Level
University
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Short answer
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
Qwen2.5-72B #165 on the capability index
Last in a launch post
September 2024, dropped before it saturated
Last model added
September 2024
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

In the authors’ words

The recent LLMs like GPT-4 and PaLM-2 have made tremendous progress in solving fundamental math problems like GSM8K by achieving over 90% accuracy. However, their capabilities to solve more challenging math problems which require domain-specific knowledge (i.e. theorem) have yet to be investigated. In this paper, we introduce TheoremQA, the first theorem-driven question-answering dataset designed to evaluate AI models' capabilities to apply theorems to solve challenging science problems. TheoremQA is curated by domain experts containing 800 high-quality questions covering 350 theorems (e.g. Taylor's theorem, Lagrange's theorem, Huffman coding, Quantum Theorem, Elasticity Theorem, etc) from Math, Physics, EE&CS, and Finance. We evaluate a wide spectrum of 16 large language and code models with different prompting strategies like Chain-of-Thoughts and Program-of-Thoughts. We found that GPT-4's capabilities to solve these problems are unparalleled, achieving an accuracy of 51% with Program-of-Thoughts Prompting. All the existing open-sourced models are below 15%, barely surpassing the random-guess baseline. Given the diversity and broad coverage of TheoremQA, we believe it can be used as a better benchmark to evaluate LLMs' capabilities to solve challenging science problems. The data and code are released in https://github.com/wenhuchen/TheoremQA.

Abstract of TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering dataset (arXiv:2305.12524, CC0)
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Models scored in lab cards
2
Launch posts list it, from 1 lab
1
System card reports it, from 1 lab

Qwen2-72B leads with 44.4%

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

GPT-4 Turbo leads with 48.4% across all independent runs

Best score per model across the official leaderboard, Epoch AI’s own runs and any board Epoch AI copied. Each bar and row names its source.

GPT-4 Turbo leads with 48.4%, claims included

Best score per model from every source, including labs’ own numbers and claims Epoch AI collected from reports and papers. Labs pick their own settings, so a claim can beat an independent run of the same model.

  1. 1 Qwen2-72B 44.4%
  2. 2 Qwen2.5-72B 42.4%

Source: Labs’ model cards

#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen2-72B 44.4% Jun 2024 Lab model card
2 Qwen2.5-72B 42.4% Sep 2024 Lab model card
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 48.4% 5-shot CoT Apr 2024 Official leaderboard
2 MAmmoTH2-8x7B-Plus 34.1% 5-shot CoT May 2024 Official leaderboard
3 DeepSeekMath-7B-Instruct 23.7% 5-shot CoT Feb 2024 Official leaderboard
4 Llemma 7B 17.2% 5-shot CoT Oct 2023 Official leaderboard
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 GPT-4 Turbo Apr 2024 48.4% 5-shot CoT Apr 2024 Official leaderboard
2 Qwen2-72B 44.4% Jun 2024 Lab model card
3 Qwen2.5-72B 42.4% Sep 2024 Lab model card
4 MAmmoTH2-8x7B-Plus 34.1% 5-shot CoT May 2024 Official leaderboard
5 DeepSeekMath-7B-Instruct 23.7% 5-shot CoT Feb 2024 Official leaderboard
6 Llemma 7B 17.2% 5-shot CoT Oct 2023 Official leaderboard

The benchmark's own leaderboard has 34 entries, 4 of them models we track. Switch the scores above to rank them together.

Number one over time 3 models have held number one across all independent runs since its release in May 2023 3 models have held number one with claims included since its release in May 2023

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release. We draw one row each for the benchmark’s own leaderboard and what labs claim in their cards.

EleutherAI DeepSeek OpenAI Qwen
Own leaderboard Not tested since May 2024
GPT-4 Turbo 48.4%
Lab claims Not tested since Sep 2024
Qwen2-72B 44.4%

Sources: Official TheoremQA leaderboard and labs’ model cards

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-4 Turbo DeepSeekMath-7B-Instruct Llemma 7B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) GPT-4 Turbo DeepSeekMath-7B-Instruct

Sources: Official TheoremQA leaderboard and labs’ model cards

No launch post has listed it since September 2024

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Qwen
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
Sep 19, 2024 Qwen2.5-72B 42.4 Theoremqa
Jun 7, 2024 Qwen2-72B 44.4 TheroemQA

One system card reports it

Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.

DateDocumentScoreAs the document writes itSection
Jul 15, 2024 Qwen2-72B technical report 44.4 Theorem QA, Qwen2-72B-Instruct (Table 6) Capabilities

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