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most citedA Systematic Assessment of OpenAI o1-Preview for Higher Order Thinking in Education

5 citations · 10 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

K2P: Label-Free Knowledge to Prompt Distillation

Yingchuan Zhang, Haoran Lu, Wenxuan Zhong +1

Knowledge distillation can transfer reasoning from stronger teachers to frozen students through reusable prompts, but avoiding weight updates does not eliminate supervision. Withou…

stat.ML2026

A Statistical Perspective on Knowledge Distillation: Foundations, Classical Methods, and Large Language Model Extensions

Luyang Fang, Haoran Lu, Jiazhang Cai +4

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a vital paradigm for transferring the capabilities of high-capacity models to efficient ``student'' counterparts, addressing critical cha…

stat.ME2026

Knowledge Cascade: Reverse Knowledge Distillation on Nonparametric Multivariate Functional Estimation

Luyang Fang, Haoran Lu, Yongkai Chen +2

As machine learning models and datasets continue to grow, developing complex models has become increasingly computationally demanding. Knowledge distillation reduces deployment cos…

cs.AI2026

Confidence-Aware Automated Assessment of Student-Drawn Scientific Models

Luyang Fang, Yingchuan Zhang, Jongchan Park +3

Student-generated drawings are widely used in science education to assess learners' conceptual understanding in modeling-based tasks aligned with the Next Generation Science Standa…

stat.ME2026

Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation via Teacher-Informed Mixture Priors

Luyang Fang, Yongkai Chen, Jiazhang Cai +2

Knowledge distillation is a powerful method for model compression, enabling the efficient deployment of complex deep learning models (teachers), including large language models. Ho…

cs.AI2026

NeuroMAS: Multi-Agent Systems as Neural Networks with Joint Reinforcement Learning

Haoran Lu, Luyang Fang, Wenxuan Zhong +1

Multi-agent language systems are often built as hand-designed workflows, where agents are assigned semantic roles and communication protocols are specified in advance. We propose N…

cs.LG2025

Generalizable and Efficient Automated Scoring with a Knowledge-Distilled Multi-Task Mixture-of-Experts

Luyang Fang, Tao Wang, Ping Ma +1

Automated scoring of written constructed responses typically relies on separate models per task, straining computational resources, storage, and maintenance in real-world education…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Multi-Task Inferencing: Model Merging with Gromov-Wasserstein Feature Alignment

Luyang Fang, Ehsan Latif, Haoran Lu +3

Automatic scoring of student responses enhances efficiency in education, but deploying a separate neural network for each task increases storage demands, maintenance efforts, and r…

cs.CY2024★ 5 cited

A Systematic Assessment of OpenAI o1-Preview for Higher Order Thinking in Education

Ehsan Latif, Yifan Zhou, Shuchen Guo +24

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, it demonstrates capabilities comparable to human intelligence, with significant potential to transform education and workforce…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Knowledge Distillation of LLM for Automatic Scoring of Science Education Assessments

Ehsan Latif, Luyang Fang, Ping Ma +1

This study proposes a method for knowledge distillation (KD) of fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) into smaller, more efficient, and accurate neural networks. We specifically…