arXiv AI June 3, 2026 By Kelsey Rainey, Jesse Roberts

Leveraging BART to Assess CS1 C++ Programming Assignments using Rubric-based Criteria

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.

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