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Zachary Pardos

4 accepted papers

2026

Efficient Adaptive Testing via Gradient Path Matching Subset Selection for AI Education

ICML 2026poster

Adaptive testing is widely adopted in AI-driven educational assessment systems (e.g., GRE), where the goal is to select an optimal subset of questions from a large question pool to accurately estimate an examinee's ability. A fundamental challenge is that: optimal question subsets are inherently per…

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2025

Position: AI Evaluation Should Learn from How We Test Humans

ICML 2025poster

As AI systems continue to evolve, their rigorous evaluation becomes crucial for their development and deployment. Researchers have constructed various large-scale benchmarks to determine their capabilities, typically against a gold-standard test set and report metrics averaged across all items. Howe…

2023

A Bounded Ability Estimation for Computerized Adaptive Testing

NeurIPS 2023poster

Computerized adaptive testing (CAT), as a tool that can efficiently measure student's ability, has been widely used in various standardized tests (e.g., GMAT and GRE). The adaptivity of CAT refers to the selection of the most informative questions for each student, reducing test length. Existing CAT…