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
arXiv:2607. 28048v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Skill-based prompting has become a practical mechanism for improving large language model (LLM) agents, yet existing skill acquisition methods often treat skills as experience summaries, memory entries, or direct summaries of successful demonstrations.
By Qiming Shi, Yibo Dou, Jiawen Zhu, Yulong Tao, Linbo Jin, Zhaolu Kang, Yunfan Zhou, Di Weng
arXiv:2606. 15349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standardized examinations are typically treated as uniform syllabus coverage problems.
By Joy Bose, Om Thomas
arXiv:2608. 03811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Unified Neural Variational Measurement of Proficiency (UNVaMP) architecture, a knowledge tracing method that integrates observed student-item interactions with internal memory to produce evolving latent representations of student knowledge.
By Carson J. Cook, Ahmed J. Zerouali, Anthony Schmidt, Reginald Ziedzor, Paul Lin, Luke G. Eglington
arXiv:2607. 08776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the success of knowledge distillation (KD) in Large Language Models (LLMs), the underlying mechanism behind its efficacy remains unclear.
By Qingzhuo Wang, Ruiyang Qin, Zhenxin Qin, Wen Shen, Zhihua Wei
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. 15225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale learner-task interaction data are crucial for intelligent educational systems but are costly to collect and constrained by privacy and learner engagement.
By Weibo Gao, Qi Liu, Linan Yue, Zheng Zhang, Yichao Du, Fangzhou Yao, Ao Yu, Zhenya Huang, Shijin Wang
arXiv:2603. 07079v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation is a promising approach for transferring knowledge between language models, where a student learns from dense token-level signals along its own trajectories.
By Woogyeol Jin, Taywon Min, Yongjin Yang, Dennis Wei, Yi Zhou, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Nathalie Baracaldo, Kimin Lee
arXiv:2509. 14257v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model agents achieve strong performance on multi-step reasoning and tool-use tasks, but their impressive capabilities typically rely on extremely large backbones.
By Yuanjie Lyu, Chengyu Wang, Jun Huang, Tong Xu
arXiv:2603. 02830v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting future student responses to questions is particularly valuable for educational learning platforms where it enables effective interventions.
By Prarthana Bhattacharyya, Joshua Mitton, Ralph Abboud, Simon Woodhead
arXiv:2607. 24720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-turn long-horizon planning is critical for foundation model agents, yet how to fundamentally improve it remains unclear.
By Tianyi Men, Zhuoran Jin, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao
arXiv:2606. 12171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) and mixup have proven effective at inducing smoothness in class boundaries; KD captures inherent class relationships in probability distributions, and mixup enforces them through convex combinations of inputs.
By Jos\'e Medina, Paul Honeine, Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Amnir Hadachi