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The paper claims that GSM-PLUS-BN, a human-verified Bengali translation of the GSM-Plus perturbation benchmark, is a valid tool for testing whether large language models genuinely reason about Bengali math problems or just pattern-match.

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load-bearing objection The Bengali GSM-Plus translation is a genuinely useful resource, but the paper's own claims about being first and about the English performance gap don't survive contact with its text, and the Critical Thinking category is internally inconsistent with the answer-preservation guarantee. the 5 major comments →

arxiv 2607.13248 v1 pith:2RBLMLBY submitted 2026-07-14 cs.CL

GSM-Plus-BN: A Perturbation-Based Benchmark for Bangla Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models

classification cs.CL
keywords Bengali mathematical reasoningperturbation benchmarkLLM robustnesschain-of-thought promptingGSM-Pluslow-resource languageexact-match evaluationcritical thinking
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This paper introduces GSM-PLUS-BN, the first perturbation-based mathematical reasoning benchmark for Bengali, built by translating the English GSM-Plus dataset and having six expert humans verify each item. It then evaluates six open-source language models under both standard prompting and chain-of-thought prompting to measure robustness across eight perturbation types. The central claim is that the dataset preserves the underlying math and correct answers while changing surface form, so the reported accuracy differences reveal genuine model fragility rather than translation artifacts. If correct, this gives the research community a reusable resource to measure Bengali math reasoning and a baseline showing that models lose 20 to 40 percentage points when problems are perturbed, with chain-of-thought helping some models but not others.

Core claim

The authors claim that GSM-PLUS-BN is a valid Bengali adaptation of GSM-Plus, comprising 10,544 instances from 1,318 seed questions across eight perturbation types: numerical substitution, digit expansion, integer-decimal-fraction conversion, adding operation, reversing operation, problem understanding, distraction insertion, and critical thinking. They report that GPT-OSS-20B reaches 96.08% accuracy on seed questions under standard prompting, that larger models such as Llama-3.3-70B and GPT-OSS-120B are more robust across perturbation types, and that chain-of-thought prompting substantially improves most models while slightly hurting others. They also show that critical thinking items, whic

What carries the argument

The central object is the GSM-PLUS-BN dataset itself: a Bengali translation of the GSM-Plus perturbation taxonomy, expanded from 1,318 seeds into 10,544 items. The load-bearing machinery is the hybrid translation pipeline (AI translation followed by six human experts applying rules to preserve reasoning chains, localize names, currency, and numerals) plus the paired evaluation protocol that compares seed questions against their eight perturbed variants under standard and zero-shot chain-of-thought prompts, scored by exact-match accuracy.

Load-bearing premise

The Bengali translations of all eight perturbation types preserve the original seed answer and the full mathematical meaning in every case, including the critical-thinking items where 'the correct answer' is a judgment about missing information.

What would settle it

Have independent Bengali-speaking mathematicians solve a random sample of GSM-PLUS-BN items without seeing the English originals, then compare their answers against the provided labels; if disagreement rates rival the reported model accuracies, the benchmark's answer-preservation claim fails. Alternatively, a back-translation audit of the Bengali items to English that changes the math would falsify the translation fidelity claim.

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If this is right

  • If valid, GSM-PLUS-BN provides the first standard benchmark for measuring reasoning robustness of LLMs in Bengali, enabling direct cross-lingual comparisons with the English GSM-Plus.
  • Chain-of-thought prompting helps weaker models like Qwen3-32B dramatically (average +23.85 points) but degrades Llama-3.1-8B and slightly hurts GPT-OSS-120B, so model-specific prompting selection matters in low-resource settings.
  • Critical thinking perturbations remain a universal failure mode below 34% accuracy, indicating current LLMs cannot reliably detect under-determined Bengali math problems.
  • The 20-to-40-point seed-versus-perturbed gap under standard prompting quantifies the robustness deficit that future Bengali math reasoning models should target.
  • Arithmetic perturbations like adding operation and integer-decimal-fraction conversion stay below 80% even with CoT, suggesting reliance on surface patterns rather than genuine arithmetic understanding.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the dataset truly preserves answers across all eight perturbation types, then a model that scores high on seeds but collapses on perturbations is pattern-matching; GSM-PLUS-BN could therefore serve as a direct test of 'genuine understanding' in Bengali, extending a similar argument made for English.
  • The persistent English-to-Bengali robustness gap suggests that robustness improvements learned in English do not transfer automatically; adapting models to Bengali math may require explicit Bengali training data or language-specific prompting strategies.
  • A concrete next step would be to back-translate the Bengali perturbed items to English and re-run the same models: if English accuracy recovers while Bengali accuracy drops, the gap likely reflects translation quality or language-model multilingual gaps rather than reasoning ability.
  • The authors' evaluation subset of 1,000 seeds is not described as randomly sampled; a formal random-sampling audit or inter-annotator agreement check on the translation step would substantiate the baseline numbers reported here.

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Referee Report

5 major / 7 minor

Summary. The paper introduces GSM-PLUS-BN, a Bengali perturbed-math benchmark derived from the English GSM-Plus dataset, and evaluates six open-weight LLMs under standard prompting and zero-shot chain-of-thought prompting. The dataset comprises 10,544 instances from 1,318 GSM8K/GSM-Plus seed questions across eight perturbation categories, translated by a hybrid AI-plus-human process. The authors report exact-match accuracies for seed questions and for each perturbation type, and draw conclusions about model robustness, the difficulty of Critical Thinking and arithmetic perturbations, and a performance gap relative to English benchmarks. The dataset is publicly released on Mendeley Data, and the paper positions it as the first systematic robustness benchmark for Bengali mathematical reasoning.

Significance. If the dataset construction and the reported baselines are valid, this is a useful contribution. GSM-PLUS-BN fills a clear gap: no previous Bengali benchmark systematically applies perturbation-based robustness evaluation to mathematical reasoning. The public release on Mendeley Data, the eight-category perturbation taxonomy aligned with GSM-Plus, the two prompting conditions, and the spread of model sizes and architectures (8B–120B, dense and MoE) make the resource immediately usable for low-resource reasoning research. The human-translation effort is a strength in principle, though its reliability is not quantified. No machine-checked proofs or parameter-free derivations are involved; the value is empirical. However, the central claims currently rest on several unstated assumptions about answer preservation, answer extraction, sampling, and the English comparison, which must be resolved before the baselines can be taken as reliable.

major comments (5)
  1. [§3.1.5 vs. §3.4 and §3.5] Critical Thinking is defined as removing essential information so that the model 'should recognize that the available information is insufficient and explicitly identify the missing information.' Yet §3.4 states that the variants 'preserve the correct numerical answer of the original seed question,' and §3.5 states that seed_answer 'remains identical across all eight adversarial variants.' These statements are incompatible. If a Critical Thinking variant is genuinely underdetermined, the seed's numeric answer is not entailed by the question text; scoring by exact match to that numeric answer would penalize exactly the behavior the category is designed to elicit. Tables 5 and 6 report Critical Thinking accuracies of 6.60–31.80% (Standard) and 11.00–33.00% (CoT), but without specifying what the gold label is for this category and how non-numeric insufficiency responses are mapped, these nu
  2. [§3.1.2 vs. §3.4 and §3.5] The unconditional answer-preservation guarantee is also contradicted by the Arithmetic Variation examples. The Adding Operation example changes the asked quantity from total bolts to total cost, so the seed answer (3 bolts) is not the answer to the variant; the Reversing Operation example asks for blue fiber and has answer 2, not 3. Thus the statement 'These variants preserve the correct numerical answer of the original seed question' (§3.4) is false as written. The paper should clarify whether the dataset stores a per-variant answer separately from seed_answer, and whether Tables 5–6 are computed against the variant-specific answer. If they are, the text of §3.4 and §3.5 needs correction; if they are not, the arithmetic-variation baselines are invalid.
  3. [Abstract and §5] The abstract claims 'a notable performance gap persists across all models relative to their English benchmarks,' but no English control experiment is reported anywhere. Tables 4–7 contain Bengali-only accuracies. Citing the original GSM-Plus result (GPT-3.5-Turbo ≈61%, §2.4) does not establish an English baseline for the six evaluated models under the same prompts, decoding settings, and extraction rules. This cross-lingual claim should be removed, or the authors should run the identical protocol on the English GSM-Plus (even a matched subset) and report per-model English accuracies.
  4. [§5, Tables 4–7] All reported numbers are single-run exact-match accuracies with no decoding details, no answer-extraction specification, no variance estimates, and no significance tests. The problem is acute given the large observed swings (e.g., Qwen3-32B seed accuracy 13.98% under Standard vs. 76.25% under CoT; Llama-3.1-8B dropping 23.27 points under CoT). Without temperature, top-p, max-tokens, the exact prompt templates, and a deterministic rule for extracting numeric answers from Bengali free text (and for handling non-numeric Critical Thinking responses), the results are not reproducible and rankings may be within run-to-run noise. The authors should provide the full inference protocol and at least report standard errors or confidence intervals from multiple runs.
  5. [§5 opening] The evaluation uses 9,000 samples comprising '1000 samples from seed questions and the other 8000' variants, but the paper never states how the 1,000 seeds were selected from the dataset's 1,318 seeds. If the subset is not random—for example, chosen for translatability or answerability—Tables 4–7 may not be representative of GSM-PLUS-BN as a whole. The sampling procedure should be stated explicitly, and preferably accompanied by a comparison of the sampled and unsampled seed populations.
minor comments (7)
  1. [Throughout] 'Perturbated' is used repeatedly (title, abstract, §§4–5) where 'perturbed' is the standard term.
  2. [§3.1.4, Figure 4, Tables 5–6] The category is inconsistently named 'Distractor Insertion', 'Distraction Insertion', and 'Distraction Insertion'. Use one spelling.
  3. [§3.5] The data-structure description lists seed_question and seed_solution but does not make clear whether solution and answer are per-variant or per-seed. Define this precisely.
  4. [§5.3] After Table 6, several paragraphs begin with bare parenthetical phrases such as '(Numerical Substitution, Digit Expansion, ...' and '(Reversing Operation, Problem Understanding)' with no main clause. These should be rewritten as complete sentences.
  5. [References] References [56] and [57] appear to be the same survey by Wang et al.; one duplicate should be removed.
  6. [Figure 1 and Figure 4] The Bengali example sentences have no English glosses, making it difficult for a non-Bengali reader to verify the perturbation transformations. Adding word-aligned glosses or English back-translations would improve accessibility and auditability.
  7. [§4.2] The prompt templates are illustrated in figures but the exact system and user strings are not given in a machine-readable appendix. For reproducibility, the full prompts should be included.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged

Critical Thinking ground truth is defined as the seed's numeric answer even though the CT definition requires an insufficiency judgment; the low CT accuracies and the 'missing logical reasoning' conclusion are built into the answer key by construction.

specific steps
  1. self definitional [§3.1.5, §3.4, §3.5; results in §5.6, Tables 5–6; metric in §6]
    "Critical Thinking ... removes essential information ... models are expected to recognize that the available information is insufficient and explicitly identify the missing information [§3.1.5]. seed_answer: The final answer of the original seed question, which remains identical across all eight adversarial variants [§3.5]. ... uniformly poor performance on Critical Thinking perturbations ... reveals that current LLMs fundamentally lack complex, multi-step logical reasoning capabilities [§5.6]."

    With exact-match scoring (§6), a model that follows §3.1.5 and answers 'insufficient information' cannot equal the numeric seed_answer that §3.5 declares invariant, so CT rows are keyed to the seed's number by construction. Low CT accuracy is therefore partly an artifact of the answer key, and the §5.6 inference that models lack the capability is definitionally forced. If instead the CT answer key were an insufficiency response, §3.5's preservation guarantee would be false—either way the reported CT behavior is not an independent measurement.

full rationale

This is an empirical benchmark paper, not a derivation: the dataset is an external translation artifact, and the model accuracies are measurements, so the default assessment is mostly non-circular. There are no fitted parameters being relabeled as predictions, and no uniqueness or correctness theorem is imported from the authors' prior work; the SOMADHAN/PatiGonit self-citations in §2 and §4.2.1 are contextual and do not carry the results. The one definitional circularity is the Critical Thinking category. §3.1.5 defines the correct response as identifying missing information, but §3.4 and §3.5 define every variant's seed_answer as the original numeric answer, and §6 confirms exact-match scoring. Thus the CT accuracy columns in Tables 5–6 and the conclusion that models 'fundamentally lack complex logical reasoning' (§5.6) are in part a construction of the answer key: a model obeying §3.1.5 is scored wrong by §3.5. This does not vitiate the other seven perturbation types, which have no such definitional entanglement, but it does infect the headline 'Critical Thinking is hardest' result. I therefore score the partial circularity at 6 rather than treating the whole paper as circular.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

No numerical parameters are fitted; the paper makes no predictions from fitted constants, so the free-parameter ledger is empty. The central claim rests instead on domain assumptions: the GSM-Plus perturbation property carries over to translation, human verification preserves answers, exact-match is an adequate metric, and the Groq API models correspond to the named checkpoints. None of these are verified with statistics in the paper. No new entities (particles, forces, conserved quantities) are introduced.

axioms (5)
  • domain assumption GSM-Plus perturbed variants preserve the seed question's correct answer by construction.
    Invoked in §3.4-3.6; the paper transfers this property to Bengali without re-verifying it for the translated text.
  • domain assumption The English-to-Bengali human translation preserves mathematical semantics and the correct answer for all 10,544 items.
    §3.2-3.3; asserted, with no automated back-translation checks, inter-annotator agreement, or error-rate audit.
  • domain assumption Exact-match accuracy on the final answer is an adequate correctness metric.
    §6 acknowledges this metric ignores partial correctness; used throughout §5.
  • domain assumption The Groq API endpoints faithfully serve the six named open-source models in fixed versions.
    §4.1; model versions are aliases (e.g., Llama-3.3-70B-Versatile) and API snapshots are not pinned.
  • domain assumption The eight perturbation categories are independent and jointly measure reasoning robustness.
    §3.1; used to draw conclusions about which perturbation types are 'hardest' in §5.2-5.6.

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The evaluation of mathematical reasoning in large language models (LLMs) has predominantly focused on high-resource languages like English. This has created a significant barrier to the equitable development and deployment of AI in linguistically diverse regions such as Bangladesh, where over 230 million people speak Bengali. Despite this global significance, there has been minimal prior work on mathematical reasoning in Bengali and no existing research that systematically benchmarks a perturbated Bengali mathematical dataset, leaving a critical void in assessing model robustness and true comprehension beyond pattern recognition. This study addresses this gap by introducing GSM-Plus-BN, a novel perturbated Bengali mathematical dataset derived from the English GSM-Plus benchmark and verified by human translators. We evaluate six open-source LLMs Qwen3-32B, Llama-3.1-8B-Instant, Llama-3.3-70B-Versatile, Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct, GPT-OSS-120B, and GPT-OSS-20B using a benchmark of 9,000 evaluation samples comprising 1,000 seed questions and 8,000 perturbed variants under both Standard Prompting and Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting. Experimental results show that GPT-OSS-20B achieves the highest seed question accuracy of 96.08% under Standard Prompting, while larger models such as Llama-3.3-70B and GPT-OSS-120B demonstrate superior robustness across perturbation types. Furthermore, CoT prompting substantially improves reasoning for most models compared to Standard Prompting, yet a notable performance gap persists across all models relative to their English benchmarks, underscoring the inherent difficulty of perturbed Bengali text. This research makes a foundational contribution by providing GSM-PLUS-BN as a new resource and baseline for future Bengali mathematical reasoning research.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.13248 by Bidyarthi Paul, Md. Asif Karim, Nahida Jannat Mayouree, Sagar Chandra Nath, Swastika Kundu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: A seed example and its corresponding variants generated using three perturbation types. Despite the substantial progress in English-language mathematical reasoning evaluation, the research landscape for low-resource languages remains severely underexplored [29, 30]. This disparity is not merely a matter of academic interest but has profound implications for the equitable development and deployment of AI te… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: provides a comprehensive overview of the development of our proposed dataset. GSM-PLUS-BN Data Collection Data Translation Data Preprocessing GSM-PLUS DATASET [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Summary of all perturbation types with Bengali examples 3.6 Summary of Perturbation Examples Both GSM-Plus and GSM-Plus-BN employ the same adversarial perturbation framework to evaluate the robustness of large language models (LLMs) in mathematical reasoning. Since GSM-Plus-BN is a direct Bengali translation of GSM￾Plus, the perturbation structure and reasoning logic remain identical across both datasets, … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Schematic diagram of our proposed methodology. 4.1.1 Qwen3-32B Qwen3-32B is an open-source large language model developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team and released under the Apache 2.0 license [82]. The model is designed for multilingual instruction following, logical reasoning, and complex problem solving, demonstrating strong performance across a wide range of language understanding and mathematical reasoning … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Illustration of the Standard prompting strategy This strategy serves a critical methodological function as the baseline condition in our comparative analysis. By establishing a performance benchmark under standard prompting, we create a control against which the efficacy of more sophisticated prompting techniques such as Chain-of-Thought can be quantified [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Illustration of the Chain-of-Thought prompting strategy, demonstrating the step-by-step reasoning process generated by the LLM. computation and symbolic manipulation which represents a critical bottleneck in standard prompting scenarios. This approach is particularly valuable in our experimental design, as it allows us to assess whether the LLM’s performance on complex reasoning tasks can be improved throu… view at source ↗

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