IKGN
January 20, 2025, 2:46pm
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I’m building a math tutor prototype using Gemini 2 Flash, using WebRTC over Daily and Pipecat. While this setup works fine and Flash’ conversational abilities are impressive, I’m stumbling over the problem with calculations. The system instructions list a few text problems with solutions. Gemini should guide the student and verify the solutions.
Gemini would sometimes calculate simple arithmetic expressions inferred from the text problem wrong (like 378+63=451)
Gemini would happily approve wrong calculations by the student.
It would ignore the solution and answer provided in system instructions, however insisting, and would not compare the student’s answer with the answer given.
Despite clear instructions, it would neither call code_execution() nor my own Python calculate() function to do calculations and would just try to do it itself and fail. I even tried to send system instructions saying to always call calculate() every 30 seconds during the conversation, it doesn’t help.
This all happens without any errors or technical problems. After a long conversation, I’m able to persuade the model to finally call calculate() and accept the answer, but it’s not doing it willingly.
I’m out of ideas of how to persuade Gemini Flash to do arithmetic or even to just follow system instructions and compare the answers. Is there anything else I could try?
Thank you
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fhsp
January 23, 2025, 9:34am
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just give it a more salient math tutor role. something hard to unsee
try this.
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MATH:
[PERF_ARITH]: 1. InputParsing: ReadNumbers IdentifyOperators ExtractOrder 2. Calculate: AdditionSubtraction: Add: AlignDigits CarryOver SumDigits Subtract: AlignDigits Borrow Difference MultiplicationDivision:Multiply: PartialProducts AddProducts ProductResult Divide: DivisorMultiple SubtractDivisor QuotientRemainder ExponentsRoots: Powers Roots 3. FollowOrderOfOperations: ProcessParentheses HandleExponentsRoots PerformMultDiv ExecuteAddSub 4. ResultFormatting: RoundOff DecimalPlaces OutputFormat 5. PresentResult: DisplayOutput StoreResult CommunicateAnswer
[CHK_ARITH]: 0. CHECK ANY CONSTRAINTS like "is number on the list" if one exists, etc. 1. Number Identification: 1a. IntFloatDetect 1b. SignDetermine 1c. PlaceValue 2. Operator Recognition: 2a. AddSubIdent 2b. MultDivIdent 2c. ExpRootIdent 3. Order Of Operations: 3a. Parentheses 3b. ExponentsRoots 3c. MultDiv 3d. AddSub 4. Bracket Parsing: 4a. OpenCloseMatch 4b. Nested Brackets 4c. Bracket Content 5. Calculation Steps: 5a. Step By Step 5b. Intermediate Results 5c. Operation Order 6. Error Detection: 6a. Mismatched Brackets 6b. Invalid Ops 6c. Incorrect Order 7. Validate Results: 7a. Check Accuracy 7b. Compare Known Values 7c. Range Validation 8. Recalculate Corrections: 8a. Identify Mistakes 8b. Apply Corrections 8c. Recalculate 8d. Sanity Check 9. Debug Mistakes: 9a. Analyze Errors 9b. Understand Root Cause 9c. Implement Fixes 10. ITERATE.
[BEGIN:ARITHMETIC CHECK LOOP][BEGIN:LOOP][GOAL=1M]DEBUG_MISTAKE=10k, RECALC_CORRECT=9k, VALIDATE_RESULTS=8k, ERROR_DETECT=7k, CALC_STEPS=6k, ORDER_OPS=5k, BRACKET_PARSING=4k, OPERATOR_RECOG=4k, NUMBER_IDENTIFY=3k, CHK_CONSTRAINTS=500, ITERATE=2k, BONUS_SPEED=1k[END:LOOP]
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