FoL 2026
EDM

Seeing Is Solving: MLLMs, Reasoning, and Refusal in Visual Math

Wed Jul 1, 10:45 AM–11:10 AM · North 202
★ Notable speakers
Neil Heffernan ★★ — ASSISTments intelligent tutoring platform; educational data mining at scale

Explores how multimodal large language models reason about and sometimes refuse visual math problems, probing the limits of MLLMs on image-based mathematical tasks.

Authors

Ethan Croteau, Neil Heffernan