arXiv:2606. 26671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training alignment determines the reasoning and human preference following capabilities of large language models, yet most existing works withhold detailed data construction, filtering rules and training recipes, which hinders community reproducibility and lightweight model optimization.
By Qiaobo Hao, Yangqian Wu, Shunyi Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Ziqun Li, Yayin He, Muqing Li, Chen Zhong
Bangla-English tutoring requires more than producing a correct translation: learners also need explanations of grammar differences, awareness of their likely errors, and targeted practice. We present...
The paper introduces Universal Textual Teaching (UTT), a parameter‑update‑free framework that distills knowledge gaps between a Teacher and Student large language model into a reusable natural‑language artifact called a Primer. UTT identifies representative gap cases, then iteratively refines the Primer through a cycle of student attempts, prompter‑generated teaching instructions, teacher demonstrations, and synthesizer consolidation. Experiments on math (Omni‑MATH‑2) and code generation (KernelBench) show significant accuracy gains, outperforming prompt engineering and parameter‑based knowledge distillation, and the Primer generalizes across different Teacher‑Student pairs.
By Zhanyi Lu, Huan Wang
arXiv:2608. 03952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide conversational practice for English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners.
By Dongjie Yang, Siyan Lin, Leixian Shen, Rui Sheng, Huamin Qu, Zixin Chen
arXiv:2606. 06546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) for education requires measuring how models teach, not only what they know.
By Tao Liu, Ye Lu, Ruohua Zhang, Siyu Song, Wentao Liu, Aimin Zhou, Hao Hao
arXiv:2510.13935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: The facts a language model stores are tied to its parameter count, so small models that fit on edge devices fail on expert problems, which ne...
By Kenan Alkiek, David Jurgens, Vinod Vydiswaran
arXiv:2608. 09548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in education as tutors, teaching assistants, and content generators.
By Yilin Jiang, Xiaorong Zhu, Fei Tan, Zicheng Zhang, Kaiyi Huang, Yang Yu, Zexuan Fei, Yiming Luo, Keqian Li, Hao Hao, Aimin Zhou, Guangtao Zhai
arXiv:2607. 14707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models routinely produce fluent answers to single-shot prompts, yet deploying them as reliable components of a domain decision system is substantially harder.
By Akash Raj
arXiv:2606. 10327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated Essay Scoring (AES) systems must judge interdependent discourse elements (e.
By Ali Keramati, Mark Warschauer
AI University (AI‑U) is a flexible framework that uses a fine‑tuned large language model (LLM) combined with retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) and a reasoning synthesis model to produce style‑aligned responses from lecture videos, notes, and textbooks. In a graduate‑level finite‑element‑method (FEM) course, the authors created a pipeline to generate course‑grounded training data, fine‑tuned an open‑source LLM with Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA), and applied RAG‑based synthesis. Evaluation through cosine similarity, LLM‑based assessment, expert review, and user studies showed that the expert model outperformed the base model in alignment with course materials, with 86 % of test cases scoring higher and human users preferring the expert model roughly twice as often.
whyItMatters":"The study demonstrates a practical method for building course‑specific learning assistants that improve alignment with instructional content, offering a template that can be extended across STEM fields."
By Mostafa Faghih Shojaei, Rahul Gulati, Benjamin A. Jasperson, Shangshang Wang, Simone Cimolato, Manas Vardhan, Dangli Cao, Willie Neiswanger, Krishna Garikipati
The paper reports that fine‑tuned small language models (SLMs) can outperform large frontier models in annotating grammar concepts from learner–tutor transcripts. By training a 0.8B Qwen3.5 model on teacher‑generated data and embedding the annotation rules into adapter weights, the authors deploy an efficient end‑to‑end grammar mastery tracker that matches or exceeds the performance of 4B reference models and GPT‑5.4/5.6 on two human‑curated benchmarks. The lightweight model also cuts serving costs by about 16× and boosts learner engagement and key business metrics in an online experiment.
By Marjan Celikik, Ana Peleteiro Ramallo, Javier Morales
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).
By Unggi Lee, Sookbun Lee, Yeil Jeong, Eunjoo Lee, Minchul Shin, Hoilym Kwon