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AMO-Bench: Large Language Models Still Struggle in High School Math Competitions

arXiv 2510.26768 ↗First posted 30 Oct 2025cs.CL cs.AIcited by 38

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present AMO-Bench, an Advanced Mathematical reasoning benchmark with Olympiad level or even higher difficulty, comprising 50 human-crafted problems. Existing benchmarks have widely leveraged high school math competitions for evaluating mathematical reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, many existing math competitions are becoming less effective for assessing top-tier LLMs due to performance saturation (e.g., AIME24/25). To address this, AMO-Bench introduces more rigorous challenges by ensuring all 50 problems are (1) cross-validated by experts to meet at least the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) difficulty standards, and (2) entirely original problems to prevent potential performance leakages from data memorization. Moreover, each problem in AMO-Bench requires only a final answer rather than a proof, enabling automatic and robust grading for evaluation. Experimental results across 26 LLMs on AMO-Bench show that even the best-performing model achieves only 52.4% accuracy on AMO-Bench, with most LLMs scoring below 40%. Beyond these poor performances, our further analysis reveals a promising scaling trend with increasing test-time compute on AMO-Bench. These results highlight the significant room for improving the mathematical reasoning in current LLMs. We release AMO-Bench to facilitate further research into advancing the reasoning abilities of language models. https://amo-bench.github.io/

Key facts. Cited by 38 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Mathematical reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 18 of its 26 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 30 Oct 2025.

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  1. 2025MathArena: Evaluating LLMs on Uncontaminated Math Competitions29 May
  2. 2025RealMath: A Continuous Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models on Research-Level Mathematics18 May
  3. 2025Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad27 Mar
  4. 2025Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models27 Mar
  5. 2024FrontierMath: A Benchmark for Evaluating Advanced Mathematical Reasoning in AI7 Nov
  6. 2024Omni-MATH: A Universal Olympiad Level Mathematic Benchmark For Large Language Models10 Oct

Other references · 12

  1. 2021Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problemscited by 10,109
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  3. 2021Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Datasetcited by 5,371
  4. 2025s1: Simple test-time scalingcited by 1,341
  5. 2024OlympiadBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Promoting AGI with Olympiad-Level Bilingual Multimodal Scientific Problemscited by 1,136
  6. 2023Large Language Modelscited by 780
  7. 2025Seed1.5-Thinking: Advancing Superb Reasoning Models with Reinforcement Learningcited by 161
  8. 2024Adding Error Bars to Evals: A Statistical Approach to Language Model Evaluationscited by 148
  9. 2024MathOdyssey: Benchmarking Mathematical Problem-Solving Skills in Large Language Models Using Odyssey Math Datacited by 52
  10. 2025Unlocking Exploration in RLVR: Uncertainty-aware Advantage Shaping for Deeper Reasoningcited by 34
  11. 2025Hunyuan-TurboS: Advancing Large Language Models through Mamba-Transformer Synergy and Adaptive Chain-of-Thoughtcited by 29
  12. 2025HARDMath2: A Benchmark for Applied Mathematics Built by Students as Part of a Graduate Classcited by 5

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