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Zhiang Dong

5 accepted papers

2026

Learning from Long-Term Engagement: Adaptive Tutoring Dialogue Planning for Personalized Education

AAAI 2026technical

With the advancements of large language models (LLMs), intelligent tutoring systems have witnessed significant progress. The extensive knowledge and reasoning capabilities of LLMs enable intelligent tutoring systems to generate more helpful tutoring dialogues with scaffolding instructions. However,

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2025

Knowledge Is Power: Harnessing Large Language Models for Enhanced Cognitive Diagnosis

AAAI 2025technical

Cognitive Diagnosis Models (CDMs) are designed to assess students' cognitive states by analyzing their performance across a series of exercises. However, existing CDMs often struggle with diagnosing infrequent students and exercises due to a lack of rich prior knowledge. With the advancement in larg…

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2025

Out-of-Distribution Detection via LLM-Guided Outlier Generation for Text-attributed Graph

ACL 2025finding

Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs), which are characterized with text attributes, are widely used in the real world. When evaluating fully trained models designed for TAG predictions, they may perform significantly unsatisfactory on samples outside the In-Distribution (ID) data, which may raise serious s…

2025

Think Both Ways: Teacher-Student Bidirectional Reasoning Enhances MCQ Generation and Distractor Quality

ACL 2025finding

Generating high-quality Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) remains challenging for educational tools due to the need for contextual relevance and plausible distractors. Existing methods still struggle with these dual requirements, leading to questions that lack depth and distractors that are either to…

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2023

PTADisc: A Cross-Course Dataset Supporting Personalized Learning in Cold-Start Scenarios

NeurIPS 2023poster

The focus of our work is on diagnostic tasks in personalized learning, such as cognitive diagnosis and knowledge tracing. The goal of these tasks is to assess students' latent proficiency on knowledge concepts through analyzing their historical learning records. However, existing research has been l…