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CogEvol: Towards Efficient and Reliable Learning Environment Generation
Shangqing Tu, Daniel Zhang-Li, Yucheng Wang +20
We present CogEvol, a family of models trained specifically for Learning Environment Generation: turning a course brief into a finished learning artifact (structured-JSON slides or…
MAIC-UI: Making Interactive Courseware with Generative UI
Shangqing Tu, Yanjia Li, Keyu Chen +7
Creating interactive STEM courseware traditionally requires HTML/CSS/JavaScript expertise, leaving barriers for educators. While generative AI can produce HTML codes, existing tool…
Personalized Learning Path Planning with Goal-Driven Learner State Modeling
Joy Jia Yin Lim, Ye He, Jifan Yu +7
Personalized Learning Path Planning (PLPP) aims to design adaptive learning paths that align with individual goals. While large language models (LLMs) show potential in personalizi…
Learning in Context: Personalizing Educational Content with Large Language Models to Enhance Student Learning
Joy Jia Yin Lim, Daniel Zhang-Li, Jifan Yu +7
Standardized, one-size-fits-all educational content often fails to connect with students' individual backgrounds and interests, leading to disengagement and a perceived lack of rel…
Handling Students Dropouts in an LLM-driven Interactive Online Course Using Language Models
Yuanchun Wang, Yiyang Fu, Jifan Yu +7
Interactive online learning environments, represented by Massive AI-empowered Courses (MAIC), leverage LLM-driven multi-agent systems to transform passive MOOCs into dynamic, text-…
LecEval: An Automated Metric for Multimodal Knowledge Acquisition in Multimedia Learning
Joy Lim Jia Yin, Daniel Zhang-Li, Jifan Yu +8
Evaluating the quality of slide-based multimedia instruction is challenging. Existing methods like manual assessment, reference-based metrics, and large language model evaluators f…
Student-AI Interaction in an LLM-Empowered Learning Environment: A Cluster Analysis of Engagement Profiles
Zhanxin Hao, Jianxiao Jiang, Jifan Yu +2
Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into educational practice enables personalized learning by accommodating diverse learner behaviors. This study explored diverse learner pro…
LongWriter-V: Enabling Ultra-Long and High-Fidelity Generation in Vision-Language Models
Shangqing Tu, Yucheng Wang, Daniel Zhang-Li +8
Existing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can process inputs with context lengths up to 128k visual and text tokens, yet they struggle to generate coherent outputs beyond 1,000…
Which Type of Students can LLMs Act? Investigating Authentic Simulation with Graph-based Human-AI Collaborative System
Haoxuan Li, Jifan Yu, Xin Cong +6
While rapid advances in large language models (LLMs) are reshaping data-driven intelligent education, accurately simulating students remains an important but challenging bottleneck…
Awaking the Slides: A Tuning-free and Knowledge-regulated AI Tutoring System via Language Model Coordination
Daniel Zhang-Li, Zheyuan Zhang, Jifan Yu +8
The vast pre-existing slides serve as rich and important materials to carry lecture knowledge. However, effectively leveraging lecture slides to serve students is difficult due to…
From MOOC to MAIC: Reshaping Online Teaching and Learning through LLM-driven Agents
Jifan Yu, Zheyuan Zhang, Daniel Zhang-li +30
Since the first instances of online education, where courses were uploaded to accessible and shared online platforms, this form of scaling the dissemination of human knowledge to r…
R-Eval: A Unified Toolkit for Evaluating Domain Knowledge of Retrieval Augmented Large Language Models
Shangqing Tu, Yuanchun Wang, Jifan Yu +6
Large language models have achieved remarkable success on general NLP tasks, but they may fall short for domain-specific problems. Recently, various Retrieval-Augmented Large Langu…
Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents
Zheyuan Zhang, Daniel Zhang-Li, Jifan Yu +9
Large language models (LLMs) have been applied across various intelligent educational tasks to assist teaching. While preliminary studies have focused on task-specific, independent…
Knowledge-to-Jailbreak: Investigating Knowledge-driven Jailbreaking Attacks for Large Language Models
Shangqing Tu, Zhuoran Pan, Wenxuan Wang +6
Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly applied to various domains, which triggers increasing concerns about LLMs' safety on specialized domains, e.g. medicine. Despite…
Explainable Few-shot Knowledge Tracing
Haoxuan Li, Jifan Yu, Yuanxin Ouyang +4
Knowledge tracing (KT), aiming to mine students' mastery of knowledge by their exercise records and predict their performance on future test questions, is a critical task in educat…
SoAy: A Solution-based LLM API-using Methodology for Academic Information Seeking
Yuanchun Wang, Jifan Yu, Zijun Yao +13
Applying large language models (LLMs) for academic API usage shows promise in reducing researchers' academic information seeking efforts. However, current LLM API-using methods str…
Transferable and Efficient Non-Factual Content Detection via Probe Training with Offline Consistency Checking
Xiaokang Zhang, Zijun Yao, Jing Zhang +4
Detecting non-factual content is a longstanding goal to increase the trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs) generations. Current factuality probes, trained using humananno…
Untangle the KNOT: Interweaving Conflicting Knowledge and Reasoning Skills in Large Language Models
Yantao Liu, Zijun Yao, Xin Lv +5
Providing knowledge documents for large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising solution to update the static knowledge inherent in their parameters. However, knowledge i…
Evaluating Generative Language Models in Information Extraction as Subjective Question Correction
Yuchen Fan, Yantao Liu, Zijun Yao +3
Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable prowess in various tasks necessitating sophisticated cognitive behaviors. Nevertheless, a paradoxical performance disc…
A Cause-Effect Look at Alleviating Hallucination of Knowledge-grounded Dialogue Generation
Jifan Yu, Xiaohan Zhang, Yifan Xu +5
Empowered by the large-scale pretrained language models, existing dialogue systems have demonstrated impressive performance conducting fluent and natural-sounding conversations. Ho…
Reverse That Number! Decoding Order Matters in Arithmetic Learning
Daniel Zhang-Li, Nianyi Lin, Jifan Yu +6
Recent advancements in pretraining have demonstrated that modern Large Language Models (LLMs) possess the capability to effectively learn arithmetic operations. However, despite ac…
TableLLM: Enabling Tabular Data Manipulation by LLMs in Real Office Usage Scenarios
Xiaokang Zhang, Sijia Luo, Bohan Zhang +12
We introduce TableLLM, a robust large language model (LLM) with 8 billion parameters, purpose-built for proficiently handling tabular data manipulation tasks, whether they are embe…
WaterBench: Towards Holistic Evaluation of Watermarks for Large Language Models
Shangqing Tu, Yuliang Sun, Yushi Bai +3
To mitigate the potential misuse of large language models (LLMs), recent research has developed watermarking algorithms, which restrict the generation process to leave an invisible…
Exploring the Cognitive Knowledge Structure of Large Language Models: An Educational Diagnostic Assessment Approach
Zheyuan Zhang, Jifan Yu, Juanzi Li +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) have not only exhibited exceptional performance across various tasks, but also demonstrated sparks of intelligence. Recent studies have focused on asse…