Solving Every Step Is Not Enough: Milestone Oracles Reveal a Composition Gap in LLM Math Reasoning
Large language models (LLMs) can solve every intermediate step of a multi-step math problem on its own and still fail the full problem, even when given a roadmap of the steps and all of their answers. We introduce OracleLadder, a diagnostic evaluation that locates where LLM math reasoning fails by giving the model incr...