Study Finds LLMs Lack Human-Like Knowledge Structures in Math

An EMNLP paper evaluating 8 LLMs against 18,000 humans using Knowledge Space Theory finds that models can solve advanced problems but often fail their prerequisite skills, revealing incoherent knowledge structures that standard metrics miss.

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