arXiv:2607. 19371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based Socratic tutors increasingly guide students through multi-turn questioning, but they can suffer from scaffolding collapse: under sustained student pressure, a tutor gradually abandons guided inquiry and reveals solutions directly.
By Jing Shao, Qifeng Wu, Hanyu Zhang, Sixia Sun, Jun Zhuang
arXiv:2606. 09887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models usually supervises reasoning with scalar outcome rewards, such as binary correctness.
By Zirui Liu, Jie Ouyang, Qi Liu, Xianquan Wang, Jiayu Liu, Tingyue Pan, Qingchuan Li, Jing Sha, Zhenya Huang, Shijin Wang, Enhong Chen
arXiv:2606. 11744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are now widely used for everyday learning, but the underlying interactions are typically unstructured chats rather than following a curriculum.
By Sidney Tio, Arunesh Sinha, Pradeep Varakantham
arXiv:2606. 18257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While LLMs show promise in automating educational content creation, their ability to generate questions that stimulate higher-order thinking remains understudied.
By Xiaolong Wang, Zhe Zhao, Song Lai, Chaoli Zhang, Zijie Geng, Yu Tong, Ye Wei, Qingsong Wen
arXiv:2608. 17804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Practical LLM unlearning is usually evaluated through two objectives: suppress target-specific knowledge and preserve non-target utility.
By Rub\'en Balbastre, Juan Manuel Ordu\~na, Mariano P\'erez
arXiv:2606. 09052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-evolution offers a scalable path to stronger reasoning: a pretrained language model improves itself with only minimal external supervision.
By Siyu Chen, Miao Lu, Beining Wu, Heejune Sheen, Fengzhuo Zhang, Shuangning Li, Zhiyuan Li, Jose Blanchet, Tianhao Wang, Zhuoran Yang
Large language models (LLMs) are predominantly aligned to function as passive, sycophantic assistants. We challenge this default paradigm by empirically evaluating the cognitive plasticity of open-weight architectures when subjected to rigorous behavioral reprogramming.
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. 01584v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational tutoring agents have been shown to improve learning engagement and student outcomes, and large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in these systems to provide scalable, personalized feedback.
By Aitor Arronte Alvarez, Naiyi Xie Fincham
arXiv:2608. 16907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly reshaping education by unlocking the potential for personalized tutoring.
By Angel Tsai-Hsuan Chung, Botong Zhang, Ling-Chieh Kung, Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani
arXiv:2606. 32002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are increasingly taught from synthetic question--answer (QA) supervision: a model generates questions about a document, answers them from the same text, and the resulting pairs are used to fine-tune, distill, or compress knowledge into another model.
By Ekaterina Alimaskina, Denis Shveykin, Gleb Molodtsov, Igor Shalygin, Alexey Kadeishvili, Aleksandr Beznosikov
arXiv:2608. 07509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are increasingly used for conversational tutoring, but effective tutoring requires more than correct answers.
By Fares Fawzi, Jiaxu Zhao, Tanya Nazaretsky, Tanja K\"aser