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Bangla Math Reasoning Study: CoT Supervision Benefits Vary by Model Strength

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A new study, "MathShikkha," investigated the effectiveness of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) supervision for improving mathematical reasoning in small language models (SLMs) specifically for the Bangla language. The research constructed a dataset using GPT-5.4-generated rationales and found that while CoT supervision did not significantly improve in-domain reasoning accuracy for stronger SLMs, it notably enhanced a weaker 4B model. However, on a larger benchmark, CoT significantly outperformed answer-only fine-tuning across all models, preserving or improving out-of-domain accuracy. AI

IMPACT Investigates how different supervision methods impact LLM performance in low-resource languages, offering insights into training strategies.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a controlled study on language model training methodology. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Bangla Math Reasoning Study: CoT Supervision Benefits Vary by Model Strength

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Rahma Simin Ali, Jawad Hossain ·

    MathShikkha: A Controlled Study of Answer-Only and Chain-of-Thought Supervision for Bangla Mathematical Reasoning in Small Language Models

    arXiv:2608.08503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mathematical reasoning remains challenging in low-resource languages such as Bangla. We study whether teacher-generated Bangla Chain-of-Thought (CoT) supervision provides benefits beyond ordinary supervised fine-tuning. We construct…

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