# AIME

> AIME, the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, is a US high-school mathematics competition whose problems, each with an integer answer, are widely used as a benchmark for reasoning models, usually identified by year, as in AIME 2024 or AIME 2025.

- Identifier: PTL-0199
- Category: Benchmarks
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/aime/
- Also known as: AIME 2024, AIME 2025, American Invitational Mathematics Examination

## Description

Each exam has only 15 problems, so scores are typically averaged over many sampled attempts and vary noticeably between runs. A new exam each year provides problems written after many models' training data was collected, which limits contamination.

## Broader terms

- [Benchmark](https://protologue.com/t/benchmark/)

## Related terms

- [MATH](https://protologue.com/t/math-benchmark/)
- [Reasoning Model](https://protologue.com/t/reasoning-model/)
- [Test-Time Compute Scaling](https://protologue.com/t/test-time-compute-scaling/)
- [Self-Consistency](https://protologue.com/t/self-consistency/)

## Sources

- OpenAI (2024). Learning to reason with LLMs. https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/
- Muennighoff et al. (2025). s1: Simple test-time scaling. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). AIME. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.4.0, PTL-0199). https://protologue.com/t/aime/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)