MathVista: Visual Math Problem-Solving

Tests AI models on math problems that involve interpreting visual elements like diagrams and charts, requiring detailed visual comprehension and logical reasoning.

Overview

MathVista to evaluate model performance in answering mathematics problems that have a visual component. Each problem has an associated image which is required to solve the problem. The dataset is made up of 6,141 questions from 28 existing multimodal datasets as well as 3 new datasets created for MathVista, where each dataset contains different styles of questions. There are both multiple-choice questions and free-form questions, where the free-form questions ask for a response in the form of an integer, floating-point number, or list.

Usage

Installation

Install with pip install inspect-evals, or uv sync from a checkout of this repository.

Running evaluations

uv run inspect eval inspect_evals/mathvista --model openai/gpt-5-nano

You can also import tasks as normal Python objects and run them from python:

from inspect_ai import eval
from inspect_evals.mathvista import mathvista
eval(mathvista)

Drop uv run if you manage dependencies yourself. Log viewing (inspect view) and default-model setup are documented in the Inspect Evals README.

Options

You can control a variety of options from the command line. For example:

uv run inspect eval inspect_evals/mathvista --limit 10 --sample-shuffle
uv run inspect eval inspect_evals/mathvista --max-connections 10
uv run inspect eval inspect_evals/mathvista --temperature 0.5

See uv run inspect eval --help for all available options.

Parameters

mathvista

• shuffle (bool): (default: True)

Dataset

Here is an example from the dataset:

**Question:** The derivative of f(x) at x=2 is ____ that at x=5

**Choices:** "larger than", "equal to", "smaller than"

**Image:**

![Image for example question](example.png)

**Correct answer:** "equal to"

Scoring

An accuracy is calculated over the datapoints.

Changelog

[2-A] - 2026-02-16

• Migrate version to new scheme. See #907.

[1.0.1] - 2025-12-18

• Adds backoff policy for functions that connect to huggingface servers.