arXiv:2607. 22598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Educational chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) show promising effects on learning outcomes, yet most systems delegate pedagogical decisions such as content selection and didactic structuring implicitly to the LLM, making tutoring strategies difficult to trace, evaluate, and reproduce.
By Laurent Brisson (IMT Atlantique - DSD), Maria Segarra (IMT Atlantique - INFO, Lab-STICC\_MOTEL), Gr\'egory Smits (IMT Atlantique - INFO, Lab-STICC\_MOTEL)
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
arXiv:2607. 13041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) based AI educational content generation systems are increasingly being developed, yet no standardised benchmark exists to systematically evaluate them.
By Ravidu Suien Rammuni Silva, Ahmad Lotfi, Isibor Kennedy Ihianle, Golnaz Shahtahmassebi, Jordan J. Bird
The paper evaluates Large Language Models for automatically analyzing responses in digital teacher simulations. Experiments compare DeBERTaV3 and Llama 3 across zero‑shot, few‑shot, and fine‑tuning settings, revealing that performance varies by characteristic and that Llama 3 consistently outperforms DeBERTaV3, especially when new characteristics must be identified. The findings suggest Llama 3 is preferable for dynamic simulation environments where teacher educators introduce new evaluation criteria.
By David de-Fitero-Dominguez, Mariano Albaladejo-Gonz\'alez, Antonio Garcia-Cabot, Eva Garcia-Lopez, Antonio Moreno-Cediel, Erin Barno, Justin Reich
arXiv:2607. 13094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enables automatic analysis of large amounts of data.
By Lynn Vonderhaar, Juan Couder, Siri Siqveland, Omar Ochoa, James Pembridge
arXiv:2606. 26103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly influenced many aspects of society, particularly education, due to their demonstrated ability to complete assignments and examinations across a wide range of subjects.
By Tanner Culleton, Hung-Fu Chang
arXiv:2607. 20470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enhancing the task-specific capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) primarily requires substantial instruction-tuning datasets.
By Jiacheng Wang, Weiyan Zhang, Guangya Yu
arXiv:2607. 17166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) continue to achieve state-of-the-art performance across various natural language processing tasks.
By Luyu Qiu, Jianing Li, Hwanhee Kim, Xiaoyong Wei, Yueyuan Zheng, Janet Hsiao, Lei Chen
arXiv:2606. 03814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates rubric-aware, multitask fine-tuning of transformer models for automated grading of introductory C++ programming assignments, with the goal of producing grade predictions that better reflect instructor grading behavior than general-purpose LLMs.
By Kelsey Rainey, Jesse Roberts
arXiv:2607. 16669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: OpenLanguageModel (OLM) is an open-source PyTorch library for building and pretraining small language models while keeping their machinery visible.
By Tavish Mankash, Vardhaman Kalloli, Keshava Prasad, Deepan Muthirayan
arXiv:2605. 28066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in text embedding, yet current adaptation methods like LoRA face significant bottlenecks in computational efficiency and cross-architecture transferability.
By Yu-Che Tsai, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yuan-Hao Chen, Yu-Han Chang, Ching-Yu Tsai, Yu-Hsiang Chuang, Shou-De Lin
This paper investigates rubric-aware, multitask fine-tuning of transformer models for automated grading of introductory C++ programming assignments, with the goal of producing grade predictions that better reflect instructor grading behavior than general-purpose LLMs. Using multi-semester CS1 data, student submissions are paired with numeric scores, letter-grade buckets, and assignment rubrics, then preprocessed into unified sequences for transformer input.