Effective Personalized AI Tutors via LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608. 16907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping education by unlocking the potential for personalized tutoring.
arXiv:2608. 11245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online education offers unprecedented scalability and accessibility to global learners from diverse backgrounds, but it often suffers from low engagement and poor long term learning effectiveness.
arXiv:2608. 16907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping education by unlocking the potential for personalized tutoring.
arXiv:2608. 11259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many AI tutors leverage large language models (LLMs) today.
arXiv:2608. 03206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) power educational applications from tutoring to essay scoring, but each is a point solution to a single task, and only recently have these point solutions been integrated into agents operating over a learning management system (LMS).
arXiv:2606. 04815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lifelong learning is essential for Large Language Model (LLM) agents operating in dynamic, interactive environments.
arXiv:2607. 21306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as tutors and thought partners, helping users reason through problems.
arXiv:2604. 04251v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intelligent tutoring systems increasingly rely on reinforcement learning to personalise instruction, yet optimising for observable engagement signals can systematically decouple learner activity from genuine knowledge acquisition.
arXiv:2606. 25527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online reinforcement learning (RL) agents increasingly depend on knowledge acquired offline to achieve practical efficiency.
arXiv:2607. 21419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In long-horizon LLM agent reinforcement learning, weak policies often repeat similar failures, producing uninformative rollout trajectories and limiting effective policy optimization.
This paper is an extension of a paper presented at the ICAART 2026 conference, which introduced LEA (Learning Engagement Assistant), an adaptive AI tutoring agent combining course-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with structured Knowledge Component (KC) models across integrated Chat, Tutor, and Quiz modes. That prior work validated LEA on a single STEM course (CMP511) exclusively through simulation, using synthetic learner agents.
arXiv:2508. 03174v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collaborative partnerships play a crucial role in inquiry-oriented education.
arXiv:2607. 13370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper is an extension of a paper presented at the ICAART 2026 conference, which introduced LEA (Learning Engagement Assistant), an adaptive AI tutoring agent combining course-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with structured Knowledge Component (KC) models across integrated Chat, Tutor, and Quiz modes.
arXiv:2607. 23700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models exhibit capabilities on reasoning tasks, yet often produce flawed intermediate steps while yielding correct final answers.