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Hints Help Finding and Fixing Bugs Differently in Python and Text-based Program Representations
Ruchit Rawal, Victor-Alexandru PÄdurean, Sven Apel +2
With the recent advances in AI programming assistants such as GitHub Copilot, programming is not limited to classical programming languages anymore--programming tasks can also be e…
BugSpotter: Automated Generation of Code Debugging Exercises
Victor-Alexandru PÄdurean, Paul Denny, Adish Singla
Debugging is an essential skill when learning to program, yet its instruction and emphasis often vary widely across introductory courses. In the era of code-generating large langua…
Exploring the Impact of Quizzes Interleaved with Write-Code Tasks in Elementary-Level Visual Programming
Ahana Ghosh, Liina Malva, Alkis Gotovos +2
We explore the role of quizzes in elementary visual programming domains popularly used for K-8 computing education. Prior work has studied various quiz types, such as fill-in-the-g…
Automating Human Tutor-Style Programming Feedback: Leveraging GPT-4 Tutor Model for Hint Generation and GPT-3.5 Student Model for Hint Validation
Tung Phung, Victor-Alexandru PÄdurean, Anjali Singh +5
Generative AI and large language models hold great promise in enhancing programming education by automatically generating individualized feedback for students. We investigate the r…
Reward Model Learning vs. Direct Policy Optimization: A Comparative Analysis of Learning from Human Preferences
Andi Nika, Debmalya Mandal, Parameswaran Kamalaruban +3
In this paper, we take a step towards a deeper understanding of learning from human preferences by systematically comparing the paradigm of reinforcement learning from human feedba…
Learning Embeddings for Sequential Tasks Using Population of Agents
Mridul Mahajan, Georgios Tzannetos, Goran Radanovic +1
We present an information-theoretic framework to learn fixed-dimensional embeddings for tasks in reinforcement learning. We leverage the idea that two tasks are similar if observin…