This report synthesises findings from 12 peer-reviewed papers addressing the following research question: What is the accuracy gap between T5-11B and multimodal transformers on grade school math word problems when provided with image captions versus raw pixel inputs. 8 claims were extracted from source literature; 8 were independently verified against retrieved documents. An automated multi-reviewer quality assessment produced a score of 9.0/10. This report is a machine-generated literature synthesis and does not constitute original research.Research goal: What is the accuracy gap between T5-11B and multimodal transformers on grade school math word problems when provided with image captions versus raw pixel inputs?Autonomous literature synthesis. Automated review score: 9.0/10. Full text and citation available at Assignee Research.