2 papers
cs.CY2026
The Effortless Trap: Productive Struggle, AI, and the Illusion of Learning
Mario Brcic, Stjepan Frljic
With AI advancing fast, educators face a dilemma: allow the tool or ban it. Conflicting evidence that it both helps and hurts learning only deepens the confusion. The allow-or-ban…
cs.AI2026
Large Language Models as Optimizers: A Survey of Direct vs. Tool-Augmented Approaches and Their Performance Frontiers
Roko Peran, Luka Hobor, Mihael Kovac +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in complex mathematical optimization, even if the pragmatic user who triggers them is unaware of it. After all, many real-wor…