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most citedTraining LLM-based Tutors to Improve Student Learning Outcomes in Dialogues

21 citations · 25 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

Is Discrete Difficulty Sufficient? Leveraging Continuous Difficulty for Efficient Self-Consistency in LLMs

Sihyeong Yeom, Geon Park, Geunyeong Jeong +3

Self-Consistency (SC) is a decoding strategy that samples diverse reasoning paths and selects the most consistent answer, demonstrating strong performance on complex reasoning prob…

cs.AI2026

GRASP: GRanularity-Aware Search Policy for Agentic RAG

Varun Gandhi, Jaewook Lee, Shantanu Todmal +4

Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends static RAG by allowing language models to iteratively reason, generate search queries, retrieve evidence, and predict answers.…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Attack Success Rate: Temporal Logit Observability for LLM Safety Failures

Junyoung Park, Sunghwan Park, Seongyong Ju +1

Attack Success Rate (ASR) evaluates each jailbreak with a single yes/no label at the end of generation, telling us whether a failure happened but not how it unfolded. Two attacks t…

cs.CL2026

Who Am I? History-Aware Profiles for Student Simulation in Tutoring Dialogues

Zhangqi Duan, Shuyan Huang, Alexander Scarlatos +3

A key part of developing large language model (LLM)-powered, automated tutoring tools is student simulation, i.e., using LLMs to role-play as students, which can facilitate tutor m…

cs.CL2026

Interpretable Difficulty-Aware Knowledge Tracing in Tutor-Student Dialogues

Shuyan Huang, Alexander Scarlatos, Jaewook Lee +1

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to the development of AI-powered tutoring systems that provide interactive support via dialogue. To enable these tutoring s…

cs.HC2026

Interrogating Design Homogenization in Web Vibe Coding

Donghoon Shin, Alice Gao, Rock Yuren Pang +3

Generative AI is known for its tendency to homogenize, often reproducing dominant style conventions found in training data. However, it remains unclear how these homogenizing effec…

cs.CL2026

Letting Tutor Personas Speak Up for LLMs: Learning Steering Vectors from Dialogue via Preference Optimization

Jaewook Lee, Alexander Scarlatos, Simon Woodhead +1

With the emergence of large language models (LLMs) as a powerful class of generative artificial intelligence (AI), their use in tutoring has become increasingly prominent. Prior wo…

cs.CL2026

Simulated Students in Tutoring Dialogues: Substance or Illusion?

Alexander Scarlatos, Jaewook Lee, Simon Woodhead +1

Advances in large language models (LLMs) enable many new innovations in education. However, evaluating the effectiveness of new technology requires real students, which is time-con…

cs.CL2025

Interpretable Mnemonic Generation for Kanji Learning via Expectation-Maximization

Jaewook Lee, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew Lan

Learning Japanese vocabulary is a challenge for learners from Roman alphabet backgrounds due to script differences. Japanese combines syllabaries like hiragana with kanji, which ar…

cs.CL2025

PhoniTale: Phonologically Grounded Mnemonic Generation for Typologically Distant Language Pairs

Sana Kang, Myeongseok Gwon, Su Young Kwon +4

Vocabulary acquisition poses a significant challenge for second-language (L2) learners, especially when learning typologically distant languages such as English and Korean, where p…

cs.AI2025

From Text to Visuals: Using LLMs to Generate Math Diagrams with Vector Graphics

Jaewook Lee, Jeongah Lee, Wanyong Feng +1

Advances in large language models (LLMs) offer new possibilities for enhancing math education by automating support for both teachers and students. While prior work has focused on…

cs.CL2025★ 21 cited

Training LLM-based Tutors to Improve Student Learning Outcomes in Dialogues

Alexander Scarlatos, Naiming Liu, Jaewook Lee +2

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to scale up personalized tutoring through large language models (LLMs). Recent AI tutors are adapted for the tutoring task…

cs.CL2024

Exploring Automated Keyword Mnemonics Generation with Large Language Models via Overgenerate-and-Rank

Jaewook Lee, Hunter McNichols, Andrew Lan

In this paper, we study an under-explored area of language and vocabulary learning: keyword mnemonics, a technique for memorizing vocabulary through memorable associations with a t…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Can Large Language Models Replicate ITS Feedback on Open-Ended Math Questions?

Hunter McNichols, Jaewook Lee, Stephen Fancsali +2

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) often contain an automated feedback component, which provides a predefined feedback message to students when they detect a predefined error. To…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Math Multiple Choice Question Generation via Human-Large Language Model Collaboration

Jaewook Lee, Digory Smith, Simon Woodhead +1

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) are a popular method for evaluating students' knowledge due to their efficiency in administration and grading. Crafting high-quality math MCQs is a…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Exploring Automated Distractor Generation for Math Multiple-choice Questions via Large Language Models

Wanyong Feng, Jaewook Lee, Hunter McNichols +5

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are ubiquitous in almost all levels of education since they are easy to administer, grade, and are a reliable format in assessments and practices.…