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Top 10 — News
- OpenAI partners with Cerebras A notable infra/inference partnership; watch for speed/cost implications.
- Differential Transformer V2 An attention variant for long-context efficiency; a clear comparison point vs standard Transformers.
- The Conversational Exam: A Scalable Assessment Design for the AI Era An assessment format designed to stay meaningful when students have AI.
- Open Responses: What you need to know A practical multi-model workflow for comparing and integrating LLM outputs.
- Evaluating 21st-Century Competencies in Postsecondary Curricula with Large Language Models: Performance Benchmarking and Reasoning-Based Prompting Strategies Benchmarks LLMs for curricular competency evaluation and prompting strategies.
- aiPlato: A Novel AI Tutoring and Step-wise Feedback System for Physics Homework A tutoring design emphasizing step-wise feedback (closer to how students learn).
- Take Out Your Calculators: Estimating the Real Difficulty of Question Items with LLM Student Simulations Uses simulated "LLM students" to estimate item difficulty for assessment design.
- AI Sycophancy: How Users Flag and Respond Empirical signals for detecting/handling overly agreeable LLM behavior.
AI tools & model updates
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Full list — News (8)
A notable infra/inference partnership; watch for speed/cost implications.
An attention variant for long-context efficiency; a clear comparison point vs standard Transformers.
A practical multi-model workflow for comparing and integrating LLM outputs.
An assessment format designed to stay meaningful when students have AI.
Benchmarks LLMs for curricular competency evaluation and prompting strategies.
A tutoring design emphasizing step-wise feedback (closer to how students learn).
Uses simulated "LLM students" to estimate item difficulty for assessment design.
Empirical signals for detecting/handling overly agreeable LLM behavior.