8 papers
PeerMathDial: A Middle School Dialogue Dataset for Student Collaborative Math Problem Solving
Murong Yue, Desmond Alexander Mcglone, Emily Slutz +4
Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) is a core skill in education, where the process of peer interaction is highly important. However, existing educational dialogue datasets mostly…
Can LLMs Simulate Personas with Reversed Performance? A Systematic Investigation for Counterfactual Instruction Following in Math Reasoning Context
Sai Adith Senthil Kumar, Hao Yan, Saipavan Perepa +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) are now increasingly widely used to simulate personas in virtual environments, leveraging their instruction-following capability. However, we discovere…
Designing AI Peers for Collaborative Mathematical Problem Solving with Middle School Students: A Participatory Design Study
Wenhan Lyu, Yimeng Wang, Murong Yue +5
Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is a fundamental practice in middle-school mathematics education; however, student groups frequently stall or struggle without ongoing teacher s…
ToolLibGen: Scalable Automatic Tool Creation and Aggregation for LLM Reasoning
Murong Yue, Zhiwei Liu, Liangwei Yang +8
Large Language Models (LLMs) equipped with external tools have demonstrated enhanced performance on complex reasoning tasks. The widespread adoption of this tool-augmented reasonin…
MathVC: An LLM-Simulated Multi-Character Virtual Classroom for Mathematics Education
Murong Yue, Wenhan Lyu, Jennifer Suh +2
Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is essential in mathematics education, fostering deeper learning through the exchange of ideas. Yet, classrooms often lack the resources, time,…
DOTS: Learning to Reason Dynamically in LLMs via Optimal Reasoning Trajectories Search
Murong Yue, Wenlin Yao, Haitao Mi +3
Enhancing the capability of large language models (LLMs) in reasoning has gained significant attention in recent years. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of vari…