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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…